The most important thing I learned as a foreign correspondent in about 80 countries is that it takes a very shallow knowledge of history to think tha….

The United States is not overdeployed or overextended with deployments in 150 countries on any given year. On any given week we have about 65 deploym….

When you talk about aiding this country against that country or about fighting terrorism, when you actually take that decision and strip it down, it ….

An idea is only an idea if it causes unease, debate and reflection. By that standard, Thomas Homer-Dixon's concept of an 'ingenuity gap' is truly a n….

Americans are opting out of public venues like the playground and the sidewalk for private venues like the healthclub and the mall. We're living our ….

Given the level of anti-Americanism in the world, given the level of frustration with the United States throughout the Muslim world, you've got a hom….

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen..

The closer one gets to either the eastern or the southern fringe of the German-speaking world-the closer one gets, in other words, to the threatening….

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will b….

What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities? Is there a bad smell, a genius loci, something about the landscape that m….

The masses cannot ultimately be free: only the individual can be..

If you travel around America you see different sections of highways donated by this or that person, and that's a slow beginning of what may end up be….

It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable..

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigge….

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century..

Prostitution, black marketeering, and informing on ones neighbors and friends all had such a deep-rooted tradition in Romania that there was a charmi….

It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonethe….

It is development, not poverty, that causes upheaval and terrorism..

Bismarck's genius, as well as his great flaw, was the same as that of another outstanding nineteenth-century politician of the German-speaking world,….

Wherever you have weakening states and turmoil, you will have a fertile petri dish for terrorism..

A lot of the changes are so gradual that they don't even qualify as news, or even as interesting: they're so mundane that we just take them for grant….