War is ever familiar, yet ever unpredictable. Those who reflexively turn away from war will never understand it. By Victor Davis Hanson.

The president has made an artful overture to India, the world’s largest democracy. But the relationship demands careful tending. By Tunku Varadarajan.

His innocently named “Pan-European Picnic” parted the Iron Curtain and helped end European communism. The papers of Hungarian reformer Imre Pozsgay are now open to scholars. By Maciej Siekierski and Jolanta Szabone Szuba.

Peter Berkowitz on The Citizen’s Constitution: An Annotated Guide by Seth Lipsky.