Fouad Ajami says history will be immensely kind to George W. Bush and his decision to go to war in Iraq...

Lebanese democracy has been extremely fragile since France granted independence in 1943...

"We predicate things now in the schools on race, class, and gender, and we do it as remedies for present angst, and anxieties, and controversies. So history's become melodrama rather than tragedy. That's too bad because we're not fair to the past at all..."

Victor Davis Hanson has concluded that the strategic landscape of the post-Cold War world looks less like the 19th and 20th centuries than the age of classical warfare, when actors that resembled today's nation-states regularly dealt with non-state actors ranging from giant tribal alliances to small-scale insurgencies.