James Piereson’s provocative new book Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism (Encounter, 2007) argues that liberalism lost its political dominance and intellectual coherence when it proved too brittle to confront the awkward truth of John F. Kennedy’s assassination at the hands...

Public approval ratings of Barack Obama may be falling quickly right now--but his rating of the American public is probably falling even faster.

Review ofDaniel Pipes's Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From.

Efforts to encourage investor confidence are fundamentally misguided. A skeptical disposition is much better for investors and for the proper functioning of the economy as a whole.

The recent shift of the IRGC's focus from external defense to internal security signals a renewed crackdown on reformism and civil society.

The Iraq war, widely said to have discredited the basic tenets of the neoconservative school of thought, has in fact vindicated them.

A detailed account of a scholar's cultural immersion in Saudi Arabia.