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Careers in Foreign Policy
Michael Desch, Director, Notre Dame International Security Center
Andrew Gilmour, former Senior Analyst in CIA’s Directorate of Analysis
Drew Peterson, Office of Policy Planning, State Department
John Hudson, national security reporter, Washington Post
Moderated by Justin Logan, CSS
Catholicism and U.S. Foreign Policy: Questions, and Some Answers
Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio, J.C.D., Archbishop of the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA
Michael Desch, Director, Notre Dame International Security Center
Moderated by Justin Logan, CSS
American Primacy in Crisis: Historical Origins and Current Pressures
Stephen Wertheim, Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University, CSS Visiting Fellow
Loren DeJonge Schulman, Deputy Director of Studies and the Leon E. Panetta Senior Fellow, CNAS
The Liberal International Order: How Liberal Is It, and How Is It Ordered?
Patrick Porter, University of Birmingham, UK, CSS Visiting Senior Fellow
Two Concepts of Liberty: Ideology, the Constitution, and the American Foreign Policy Tradition
Brendan Rittenhouse Green, University of Cincinnati, CSS Visiting Fellow
A French Officer Speaks the Truth about the War in Syria
The myth of humane warfare persists despite the reality on the ground, and low U.S. casualties mask the extent of the devastation.
The Armed Forces Arithmetic Isn’t Adding Up
Our increasingly hollow all-volunteer military is facing renewed major threats on the horizon.
When ‘Populist’ Becomes a Slur
Whether putative populists deserve condemnation depends entirely on what ideas, methods, and purposes they espouse.
A Covenant with all Mankind: Ronald Reagan’s Idyllic Vision of America in the World
Many who have heard Reagan's words have not really listened to them. They have taken away vague impressions of his rhetoric and have not fully understood the meaning and significance of what he actually said.
The ‘Fatal Flaw’ of Internationalism: Babbitt on Humanitarianism
A revolt against the dual tradition of Christian and humanistic self-discipline, and the substitution of a new basis of morality, lies at the heart of the breakdown of internationalism.
Power Without Limits: The Allure of Political Idealism and the Crumbling of American Constitutionalism
For the framers of the U.S. Constitution no task seemed more important than to limit and tame power.
HUMANITAS JOURNAL
Allan Bloom and Straussian Alienation
The reaction of putative conservatives to the publication of Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind in 1987 was symptomatic of deep intellectual confusion.
The Challenge Confronting Conservatives: Sustaining a Republic of Hustlers
The hustling and corruption which I once celebrated as a sort of shady virtue that helped explain America’s spectacular growth now appear to me as a vice and, at its worst, a sin whose wages are death.
A Covenant with all Mankind: Ronald Reagan’s Idyllic Vision of America in the World
Many who have heard Reagan's words have not really listened to them. They have taken away vague impressions of his rhetoric and have not fully understood the meaning and significance of what he actually said.
The First Amendment and Progress
Even if the Founders had been lucidly clear about the moral and philosophical foundations of the First Amendment, it is in a sense futile to argue from their authority.
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COUNCIL OF ADVISORS
Monica Duffy Toft
Senior Visiting Fellow
Professor of International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy | Tufts University
Andrew J. Bacevich
Senior Visiting Fellow
Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History, Boston University
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, JCD
Archbishop for the Military Services, USA
Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA
The Honorable Chas Freeman
Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs
The Watson Center, Brown University
Representative Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI)
Representing the 2nd District of Hawaii
Patrick Kelly
Deputy Supreme Knight, Knights of Columbus
Former House Intelligence Committee Counsel
The Honorable Dennis Kucinich
Former Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio
Internationally renowned champion of diplomacy and peace.
Walter McDougall
Professor of History, Alloy-Ansin Professor of International Relations
University of Pennsylvania
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