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Online Exclusive 02/27/2026 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 09/2/2013 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.

Online Exclusive 08/8/2013 Blog

What Is American Exceptionalism?

The institutions, processes, and values that have shaped American history, among them the rise of capitalism, the spread of political democracy, the rise and fall ...

Online Exclusive 07/24/2013 Blog

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