Obama's main aim isn't to shape the future it's to keep foreign policy on the back burner so his domestic agenda stays front and center.

America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

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

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Timothy Naftali of Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, and author of George H.W. Bush and Khrushchev's Cold War will deliver the January Bradley Lecture.

Americans have a hard time being realists. George Herbert Walker Bush was no...

We are not in a cold war with China. That is too simple a metaphor to describe the state of Sino-American relations.

2012 looks to be an interesting year for the already complex political triangle among the United States, Taiwan and China, what with each country undergoing political transitions. Should we expect policy continuity from President Ma Ying-jeou and the likely new Chinese leader Xi Jinping? What about continuity in the United States?

The following is excerpted and adapted from Mr. Brooks' upcoming book "The Road to Freedom: How to Win the Fight for Free Enterprise," to be released on May, 8 2012.Liberals often accuse conservatives of being obsessed by morality. But the truth is, many conservatives are reluctant to talk...