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Online Exclusive 12/11/2025 Blog

What We've Been Reading

Online Exclusive 11/17/2025 Online Essay

Department of Violence

Pete Hegseth's speech and the U.S. military strikes on alleged drug boats reveal an American policy of war without rules, violence without constraint.

Online Exclusive 10/23/2025 Online Essay

Beware the Boomerang Effect: Why U.S. Strikes on Alleged Drug Boats Pose a Profound Threat to American Freedom

The U.S. strikes on alleged drug boats point toward an intensification of unchecked destructive and coercive power that directly threatens civil and political freedom.

Online Exclusive 09/5/2013 Blog

Syria: The Case for Punitive Intervention

If the focus in Syria is on reinforcing the norms banning the use of chemical weapons, a punitive air strike should be seen as the ...

Online Exclusive 09/3/2013 Default

Out Now! Centennial Roundtable on "Nonproliferation in the 21st Century"

FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME! In the journal's fall issue, four leading experts present their perspectives on the contemporary state of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and ...

Online Exclusive 09/2/2013 Blog

On Law, Policy, and (Not) Bombing Syria

The question of whether the US should use its military against Assad is separate from the questions of legal interpretation. The legal question does not ...

Online Exclusive 08/29/2013 Blog

Syria: "To Jaw-Jaw Is Always Better than to War-War"

It has been the mantra of pro-interventionists that, in the face of tens of thousands of deaths in Syria, something must be done. But, while ...

Online Exclusive 08/19/2013 Blog

In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain (1941-2013)

Celebrating Jean Bethke Elshtain, one of the preeminent political theorists of our time.