Search Content
When Do Values Trump Democracy? Jul. 20, 2016
Last Friday, a splinter of the powerful Turkish military attempted a coup against President Recep Ta... Read More
Why People Vote for Trump Jun. 16, 2016
Participating in a democratic society is a thankless duty that seldom repays the effort. If you do r... Read More
The State of Our Tradition May. 26, 2016
Madrid — One thing conservatives overlook in their worldview is tradition. We favor limited go... Read More
Andrew Jackson Gets a Second Look After a $20 Misunderstanding Apr. 29, 2016
The inquiring mind of a young friend of mine, a junior at a Washington high school, wants to know: "... Read More
Obama Administration Should Not Apologize for Hiroshima Apr. 15, 2016
Secretary of State John Kerry toured the Hiroshima Peace Memorial and Museum in Japan this week, a m... Read More
Fear the Mob Apr. 15, 2016
You couldn't use the phrase today, but back a couple hundred years or so, people of learning and pro... Read More
Wavering Democracy in Turkey Nov. 04, 2015
Turkey's democracy is the legacy of Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic, and the only man... Read More
Power to Walk Away Matters More than the Right to Vote Oct. 30, 2015
Politicians from both major political parties often talk of empowering the middle class or some othe... Read More
Time for America to Grow Up Sep. 30, 2015
Maybe this democracy thing is overrated. We would like to believe that every four years, Americans g... Read More
Turkish Election a Model for Secular Arab Spring Revolutionaries Jun. 10, 2015
In nationwide parliamentary elections held June 7, Turkish voters rejected President Recep Tayyip Er... Read More
Who Lost Iraq? Jun. 09, 2015
After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when t... Read More
Don't Know Much About History May. 10, 2015
In March, President Barack Obama teased the notion of making voting mandatory. "It would be transfor... Read More
The Ticket to Prosperity Apr. 08, 2015
Gaza is home to Palestinian people, who have suffered injustices and have a history of legitimate gr... Read More
What's Gone Wrong With Democracy? Mar. 25, 2015
The Economist magazine recently published "What's gone wrong with Democracy ... and what can be done... Read More
Lee Kuan Yew (1923-2015) Mar. 24, 2015
It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets a... Read More
The Last Thing the Middle East Needs Is More Democracy Feb. 20, 2015
President Barack Obama gave a speech at the White House's summit on countering violent extremism thi... Read More
Obama Keeps Bowing in the Middle East Jan. 30, 2015
At the World Economic Forum last week, Secretary of State John Kerry argued that though extremists m... Read More
Local or National Elections? Oct. 14, 2014
Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill once said, "All politics is local." That may have been true in Tip ... Read More
May a Million Umbrellas Bloom Oct. 01, 2014
So many seemingly small moments reveal the heart of the protest unfolding in Hong Kong. Thousands of... Read More
America at the Tipping Point (Part 2) Sep. 09, 2014
We said on 9/11 that we'd "never forget." But when our president has a no-strategy strategy for stop... Read More
