Promoting research, teaching, and public discussion about how statesmanship can defuse conflict and foster respectful foreign and domestic relations.
A Middle East Primed for New Thinking: Insights and Policy Options from the Ancient World
Ancient patterns and precedents in political geography, social compact formation, religion, and the regional state system help us today to manage uncertainty and seize diplomatic opportunity.
Is America’s Foreign Policy Compatible with Christian Ethics?
Americans hold different ideas about the causes of war, but public discussion of the question of what Christian ethics requires of the United States has largely been ignored.
Why Congress is Not Serious About the War Powers in the Constitution
The House and Senate resolutions to prohibit military attacks on Iran have little chance of restricting the ability of the executive branch to do so.
In Praise of Rome’s Citizen Soldiers
They fought for home and family, which was preferable to professional mercenaries only in it for the emperor's spoils.
An Ingenious Way to Restore Constitutional War Authority
For the proposal to work, the House leadership and Speaker Nancy Pelosi would need to be serious about reigning in presidential war powers.
A Debauched Culture Leads to a Debauched Foreign Policy
In the political realm, debauchery is less characterized by the sensual vices than by an overzealous desire for power.
The Presidency Unchained
When it comes to war powers, conservatives are at odds with the framers of the Constitution.
Irving Babbitt and Warlike Democracies
A forthcoming book from our Managing Director brings the question of soul types to issues of foreign policy leadership.
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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