Recently, I’ve wanted to write a piece about the Middle East. But what to write about? What country should I focus on? And even if I...

In 2018, Serhii Plokhy, Professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard, published Lost Kingdom, an intellectual and cultural history of...

Last summer, I wrote about how both the United States and China were pushing for autarky (self-sufficiency), trying to uncouple their...

You could make a strong argument that the most important economic or financial development of the last decade is the advent and growth of...

Once again, there is crisis in Ukraine. Russia, that perennial malcontent, has been steadily augmenting its military forces near the...

The rarest commodity in American politics is satisfaction. Peaceful contentment is nowhere to be found, not on the right, the left, or...

Poised as we are near the start of a new decade, our glance is fixed firmly forward. We throw goals and targets at 2030 like halfhearted...

Some weeks ago, while visiting a friend in Denmark, I went to a historical village in the Jutland town of Aarhus. Den Gamle By (literally...

In this piece, the last of my three-part series on the 2021 Atlantic Charter, I will discuss the issue of success. Did the original, 1941...

In my first article about the 2021 Atlantic Charter, I wrote about the extent to which it is a symbolic document. In particular, I wanted...

The United States, represented by Joe Biden, and the United Kingdom, represented by Boris Johnson, agreed to a renewed Atlantic Charter...

Adapted from a paper I wrote during Grad School. In May 2017, the then mayor of New Orleans, Mitch Landrieu, gave a speech that made him...

When I was a sophomore in high school, I exchanged ideas with my history teacher about the ‘personal project,’ a year-long assignment...