Behind Putin’s war—and any discussions about peace—is a two-century-old fiction about the two countries’ unity.

A peace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in ...

A measured, relentless advance applies political pressure. The more destruction looms, the more intense the pressure.

The collapse of the Soviet Union greatly reduced the West’s fear of another world war—a fear that had led Western leaders to tolerate Soviet spheres of influence in central and eastern Europe. Many ...

The old world is dying, and the new one is struggling to be born. Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher and political theorist, famously wrote in his Prison Notebooks, “The old world is ...

In this worldview, Trump is not only above the law; he makes laws by acting to save “his Country.” It serves as a directive to his officers and followers that he is remaking the law by operating ...

Famous foreigners have often attracted large American crowds, but neither the Beetles nor the Rolling Stones nor Winston ...

Every child should sit down and be told about not just Rome, but more importantly, Athens, and how these societies died by ...