Promoting research, teaching, and public discussion about how statesmanship can defuse conflict and foster respectful foreign and domestic relations.
Why Foreign Policy Realism Isn’t Enough
Realists need to provide something more than cold balances of power: a sense of morality.
Fifteen Years of Forever Wars
Starting wars without any idea of how we will end them, on what terms, and with whom, is a recipe for endless disaster.
Highlights from “America’s Double Government: The Hidden Agenda of the National Security State”
A highlight reel of our November 29, 2017 panel discussion, “America’s Double Government: The Hidden Agenda of the National Security State.”
Event: The Iraq Invasion in Retrospect
Join us for a lecture by our newly appointed Visiting Fellow, Lawrence Wilkerson. Open to media and the general public.
You Can’t Blame Trump for the Welfare-Warfare State
The rush of power felt when America engages in a foreign crusade is effortlessly converted to a domestic crusade. Wars tend to undermine federalism.
Where is Real Statesmanship When We Need it Most?
Nothing is more antithetical to America’s constitutional ethos than demanding our opponents surrender unconditionally.
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.
The Moral Path to Peace
Humanity faces no greater challenge in the 21st century than averting conflict among peoples and civilizations.
NATO’s Real Existential Threat: The Surrender of Western Values
The alliance's elites have come down with a case of civilizational cluelessness.
The Sad Truth of the FBI Scandal: Both Political Parties Are to Blame
The nation’s political class has allowed James Madison’s institutions to wither, and real authority now rests with the leaders of a largely unaccountable national security bureaucracy.
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.
From Civilization to Manipulation: The Discrediting and Replacement of the Western Elite
Civilization stands or falls with those who set the tone in society. Are they proper models for emulation? Do they inspire others to realize their better selves, or are they schemers manipulating others for their own benefit?
The Unraveling of American Constitutionalism: From Customary Law to Permanent Innovation
Because constitutional rights were synonymous with the restraints on government embodied in customary law, the greatest threat to English liberties were governmental innovations that undermined centuries-old customs.
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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
OUR STAFF
Claes G. Ryn
Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Statesmanship
The Catholic University of America