neoconservatism

He fell from favor after the disaster of the Iraq War. But he was always biding his time.

Nancy Sinkoff discusses her new biography of Lucy S. Dawidowicz, a Holocaust historian whose role in the neoconservative movement is often forgotten.

Hard thinking on difficult and uncomfortable questions about how to keep everything from falling apart.

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.

Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.

What was in the water circa 1992?

Norman Mailer’s generation learned to “write like men.” But their female contemporaries from Mary McCarthy to Diana Trilling pioneered a more enduring style.

In trying to freeze reality into a cudgel that can be used to assault political opponents, the New Atheists deny the observable evidence in front of them.

The invasion is still the most important foreign policy decision by a 21st century U.S. president, so the surfeit of analysis should surprise no one.

Where the rediscovery of Sam Francis goes wrong.

The late conservative thinker, who died 20 years ago Saturday, has transcended the pariah status imposed on him during his life.

Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.

A grand strategy for a turbulent world.

Neither side of the border has seen the benefits it was promised.

In a demonstration of why he was able to kill so many people and get away with it, the day of his passage will be a solemn one in Congress and newsrooms.

There are certainly good grounds to criticize Cold War liberalism. But Samuel Moyn's new book, like similar critiques, has a classic baby-bathwater problem.

A conversation about the Cold War’s profound and negative influence on the liberal worldview.

The United States’ destruction of Iraq remains the worst international crime of our time. Its perpetrators remain free and its horrors are buried.

Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.

The right—and wrong—lessons of the Iraq War.

Melvyn Leffler’s book on the roots of the Iraq invasion demonstrates the pitfalls of excessive trust in one’s sources, especially when they're top policymakers.

Shaul Magid attempts to show us how much contemporary Jews have inherited from a man most have tried to forget.

A new book situates the War on Terror as a story of domination which traces back to the founding of the US as a settler-colonial and slaveholding behemoth.

How an idealistic defense intellectual concluded that democracy is often its own worst enemy.

Historian Walter Russell Mead has become the favorite Trump whisperer for everyone from Steve Bannon to Tom Cotton.

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.