Promoting research, teaching, and public discussion about how statesmanship can defuse conflict and foster respectful foreign and domestic relations.
New Workshop for Graduate Students
In addition to the opportunity for networking and receiving candid, constructive feedback, each participant will receive a stipend of $500.
Why the Blob Needs an Enemy
Reforming and rehabilitating the U.S. foreign policy establishment will require more than policy prescriptions and comprehensive reports: it needs generational change.
Stationing US Troops in Poland Is a Bad Idea
When it comes to defending Europe from the supposed Russian threat, most NATO members, to quote Dick Cheney on serving in the Vietnam War, have "other priorities."
Kipling: Poet Laureate of Soldiers, Sailors, and Colonizers
Poet laureate of soldiers, sailors, and colonizers, Rudyard Kipling would not appear well suited to the 2020s.
Grading Trump’s Foreign Policy
"Ending endless wars” has thus far amounted to little more than an applause line for the credulous and the craven.
Resist the Siren Song of Big Tech ‘National Champions’
To paraphrase Samuel Johnson's famous take on patriotism: The China defense may be the last refuge of the Big Tech scoundrel.
Conservatives Missed the Boat on the Power of Culture
Movement conservatives never quite understood the centrality of what lies outside of politics.
HUMANITAS JOURNAL
Church of Woke: Next American Religion?
The Church of Woke is not just another righteous uprising in American Reform. Its mission, like fourth-century Christianity, is existential change.
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.
Unconstitutional Wars from Truman Forward
From President Truman’s initiation of war against North Korea in June 1950, presidents have exceeded constitutional and statutory authority in exercising the war power.
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.
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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
