Well worth reading, John Lewis Gaddis' biography of George Kennan nonetheless raises the basic question of whether Kennan’s concrete contributions justify the many accolades he has received.

Will more regulations and a more centralized food safety bureaucracy make us safer? What kind of regulations and implementation mechanisms would best serve the public's desire for ensuring food safety?

A review ofRobert Beisner's Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War.

On her first foray outside the US as secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, who flies to London today, says she is bringing Europe a message stressing the importance of alliances and diplomacy at a moment of opportunity in Iraq and the Middle East peace process.

Most great American realists are reluctant, but that does not make them any less great when they are presidents.

In this century, every war that the United States has entered was one it had intended to avoid.

President Bush should push back North Korea, stand up to Russia, and support Israel against Iran before leaving office.