Promoting research, teaching, and public discussion about how statesmanship can defuse conflict and foster respectful foreign and domestic relations.
Irving Babbitt and Warlike Democracies
A forthcoming book from our Managing Director brings the question of soul types to issues of foreign policy leadership.
The New Social Contract We Must Reject
If we allow this new social contract to become our national norm, we will no longer be Americans in any meaningful sense. We will descend from a self-governing people into the subjects of social democratic elites.
How the Pentagon Budget is a Threat to the Middle Class
Using the military as a replacement for the social safety net is a boondoggle, not a boon.
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.
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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