The Byzantine Empire’s long run — 1,100 years — may seem remote from the 21st century, but a reading of its history offers at least three timeless lessons.

With Europe collapsing, China stumbling, and India and Brazil retreating from full free market reform, we’re the last stable, pro-growth economy left.  

What is historically distinct about U.S. power is that it has quite remarkably enabled the spread of human liberty and representative government, through time and across cultures.

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

Is American foreign policy marked more by continuity or change, by hegemony or balancing?

The relationship between Russia and its Muslim subjects is more complex than recent violence suggests.

The Speaker of the House at the turn of the twentieth century could not resist imperialism and quietly resigned.

James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer will deliver the October Bradley Lecture.

Representative Thomas B. Reed of Maine, three times Speaker of the House of Representatives in the final quarter of the 19th century, stood for all the Republican verities but one: he could not abide his party’s imperialist...