Barry Strauss On The John Batchelor Show (1/8)
interview with Barry Strauss via The John Batchelor Show(Part 1) Hoover Institution fellow Barry Strauss discusses the war that made the Roman Empire. Listen to: Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, and Part 8.
The Marital Foundations of the Republic
A new book argues that America's Founders viewed domestic life as the equal partner to public life. READ MORE › ![]()
Strategic Outpost’s Seventh Annual Summer Vacation Reading List, by David Barno and Nora Bensahel
Counting Liberalisms
The liberal/postliberal dualism is too simplistic, requiring that we see disagreement where there may in fact be none. READ MORE ›
God and the Ghosts of Communism
by thomas albert howard Nowhere was the Marxist-Leninist dogma on religion pursued more ruthlessly than in Albania. READ MORE › Kropotkin’s dead goose by Gary Saul MorsonOn the limitations of anarchist thought. “A classic moral fable” by Steve Morris. On rereading Hard Times by Charles Dickens. “The short happy life of Robert Louis Stevenson,” by Joseph Epstein. On Robert Louis Stevenson’s life and legacy. “Soviet fate, Russian hope,” by Jacob Howland (March 2018). On Nadezhda Mandelstam’s literary achievements. Death fugues: the poems of Paul Celan by John SimonOn Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by John Felstiner. How and why do societies fall apart, without any external compulsion to do so? These are questions that, having spent a great deal of my life in Britain, preoccupy me. It might be denied, of course, that societies ever . . . more Seeing Turner whole by David Yezzi The “I” of the storm by David FromkinOn The World Crisis by Winston Churchill. The voice of sanity by Stanislaw Baranczak A review of Open Letters: Selected Writings by Václav Havel. The West that wasn’t by Andrew RobertsOn a world without Western civilization. Henry James & the Great War by Stephen Miller On the author’s final years in England. Kropotkin’s dead goose by Gary Saul MorsonOn the limitations of anarchist thought.
How the New Continuing Resolution Will Frustrate the Pentagon
By Joe Gould, Megan Eckstein & Jen Judson, Defense News: "Exceptions can be made for “anomalies.” But for now, the continuing resolution means a Pentagon priority — a $5.5 billion boost for the development and testing of cutting-edge technologies that could deter China — is on hold." How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers By Catherine Putz, The Diplomat: “The oceans are a central zone for commercial competition, scientific collaboration, and naval rivalry. Sea-based trade is not just an element of globalization; it’s the core of it.”
The Nuclear Balance Is Changing—And Not for the Better
By Peter Huessy, The National Interest: “As the nuclear posture review begins, the United States faces serious dilemmas." China Military Watch By Reginald Lin & Eli Huang, The Strategist (ASPI): “The careful selection by Chinese leader Xi Jinping of military officers for rapid promotion to key positions in the People’s Liberation Army may signal both a wish to consolidate the military behind him and a concern about emerging security challenges in China’s far western regions.” ![]()
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