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Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks.

Security May Be Too Expensive

The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… the Romans and Byzantines, Bulgarians and Serbs, and later Ottomans and Hungarians. These waves of conquest each left …

From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?

… to build an infrastructure for a Jewish state in the then Ottoman-controlled Palestinian lands. What was the Middle …

The Theological Third Way in Latin America

Review of A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left, by David C. Kirkpatrick (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)

Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent, and Adolf Hitler in 1938.

Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941

… ran from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains, a Japanese empire in the Pacific, and an Anglo-American alliance …

Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)

It’s Not How to Make a Bomb That’s the Problem, But Why

Col C.B. Winders shooting a gun in the 1910s.

Reconstructing the Second Amendment

Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?

… occupied the building since Taiwan was part of the Japanese Empire (1895-1945). Accusations and anger over corruption …

Bronze statue of Sir William Blackstone.

Back to the 17th Century: Money and Political Speech

An array of non-lethal guns laid out on a table.

Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment

Copy of an 1890 lithograph depicting the Battle of New Orleans during the Revolutionary War.

A New Resource in the War Against Terrorism?

Honoring China’s June 4th Martyrs

Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

The Treaty of Waitangi

… achieved the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833 turned its attention to the plight of …

From left to right, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Vice President Dick B. Cheney having a working lunch in 2007.

Foreign Policy Doesn’t Need a Mandate

A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.

Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate

Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend

Review of Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend, by Richard Stoneman (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2008)

… Alexander (perhaps none) had travelled beyond the Persian Empire. But Alexander went for a number of reasons. …

The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989

What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan

Jefferson High School Marching Colonials perform on the steps of National Archives Building on Constitution Day, September 17, 1974.

Let’s Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day

U.S. Army Officers wearing their “Pinks-and-Greens,” 1943. (Library of Congress)

Throwback Army: World War II-Style Uniforms for Today’s Soldiers

Raising a Flag over the Reichstag by Yevgeny Khaldei (1945).

The Living Ghosts of the Second World War and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

… with an emphasis on a powerful Russian state. He saw the Revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War that followed …

'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan

… World War, these efforts hinged on the building of an empire, both for resources and for international prestige. …

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