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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Profiles in Citizenship
Sylvanus Thayer turned men into citizen–soldiers at West Point
True Barbarians
Henrik Bering on Pirates of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood
Once a Marine, Always a Marine
It’s been more than sixty years since he helped capture Iwo Jima, but Hoover fellow Richard T. Burress tells his old unit that some things never change. By Christopher C. Starling.
Can We Win?
Yes, but only in a particular way. We need to achieve a “sufficient victory. By Daniel Pipes.
The History Of Killing
During the week in which this column was drafted, renewed fighting, replete with atrocities, spread in Darfur; in Mozambique, Islamist fanatics continued to kill fellow Muslims; in Chad, the ethno-religious conflict worsened; the Chinese government continued to torture Uighurs; the Taliban welcomed the prospect of an American withdrawal with fresh attacks; and deadly eruptions pocked the Middle East.
Gentlemen Revolutionaries
Peter Berkowitz on Revolutionary Characters: What Made The Founders Different by Gordon Wood
Property Rights and African Poverty
Lincoln: Hypocrite or Statesman?
Reflections on “the greatest practitioner of democratic statesmanship that America and the world have yet produced.” By Dinesh D’Souza.
Can a Nuclear Iran be Prevented with Sanctions or is Preemptive Military Action Required?
Terminated
How Governor Schwarzenegger of California lost a rich opportunity. By Bill Whalen.
A Fierce, Freedom-Loving Man
A founder of the Communist Party of the United States, Jay Lovestone broke with the Soviets—he opposed Stalin to his face—then broke with Marxism itself. Joining the American labor movement, working closely with the CIA, he fought communism for the rest of his life. Hoover archivist Elena Danielson describes Lovestone and his papers.
Progressively Worse
Memoirs of King Kong Director and War Hero at Hoover
Merian Caldwell Cooper would be a top candidate for the "Most Interesting Man in the World." Although Cooper is known for his 1933 production of King Kong, there were many more interesting episodes in his life in addition to that iconic movie. Indeed, in the words of the film historian Richard Schickel, “his career was larger than life.” Expelled from Annapolis in his senior year for advocating air power, a view the navy frowned on, in 1916 he joined the Georgia National Guard and served with General Pershing’s expedition against Pancho Villa.
The Hoover Institution’s National Security Affairs Fellows (NSAFs) for the 2011–12 academic year
The Hoover Institution’s National Security Affairs Fellows (NSAFs) for the 2011–12 academic year have been announced by John Raisian, the Tad and Dianne Taube Director of the Hoover Institution.
The NSAF program offers representatives of the US military and government agencies the opportunity to conduct independent research on topics relevant to their respective branches of government and to the practice of diplomacy. Admission to the program is based on direct nominations from each governmental branch. Since the program began in 1969, more than 130 people have participated.
Idealism Derailed
A portrait of the late Robert S. McNamara. By Philip Bobbitt.
Man of Failure
Boris Yeltsin was the tool of Russia’s emancipation and of its descent back into authoritarianism. By David Satter.
Honesty for Hire
A few countries have found a way to stop graft and foster political stability: hire foreigners to collect their revenue. By Kris James Mitchener and Noel Maurer.
States Are Made, Not Born
No amount of global clamor will create a Palestinian state. The state of Israel shows what will: hard work, good will, and timing. By Fouad Ajami.
Readiness Writ Large
In the years immediately following the (first) end of the Cold War, the search for elusive readiness metrics in the Department of Defense was all-consuming. As the pressures mounted, first to write and then to cash the “peace dividend” check, policy pronouncements were made and working groups and war rooms were established, all asserting the existence of and searching for the Holy Grail: a suite of detailed readiness metrics that could precisely detail the impact of every procurement dollar cut and every training event curtailed.
World War III In Novels
Like hurricanes and volcanoes, most wars are not predictable even months before the event. In this regard, national intelligence estimates are no more soothsaying than novels. But unlike estimates by bureaucrats, novels are stories about human nature that entertain and often enlighten or remind us about the complexity called human nature. Consider these five novels about World War III.