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Ukraine’s Soul Search

Exactly eleven months ago yesterday I sat on a bus rattling its way through countryside on my way to L’viv, an artistic, cobblestone city in the...

A Shadow Falls On The Empire of the Sun

In his landmark book, The Clash Of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, Samuel Huntington made the following prediction: East Asia could develop...

An Open Letter to Senator Scott Brown

Dear Senator Brown, The Harvard Crimson today reported that you have begun a petition asking Harvard to allow ROTC, The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, back...

Protectionism 2.0: The All-Too-Visible Hand

While Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega's statement that the world is the midst of an "international currency war" might be somewhat premature, there is...

Obama’s Conflicts

Bob Woodward's book, Obama's War, hit shelves this week amidst turf wars in the White House between war advisors and political advisers. This is wholly appropriate....

Israel’s Unsettling Choice

It’s not unusual for the world community to talk about the Israel-Palestinian conflict in exceptional terms. Regional scholar William Quandt calls it “the world’s...

Moderate Republicans: The Hidden Contingent

The phrase “Moderate Republican” just sounds silly. Republicans aren’t supposed to be moderate. If they were, they wouldn’t be Republicans at all. To Republicans,...

Justice Scalia and Arbitrary Originalism

It was aggravating enough when  Justice Breyer, appearing on Good Morning America two weeks ago, made comments that many took to mean that Koran...

The Gender Imbalance in Campus Opinion/Political Media

In the last couple years, we at HPR have noticed a growing gender imbalance in the makeup of our staff. Of the 16 current...

Bowing to the Chinese Century?

Thomas Friedman, yesterday, in this Times column, found his rhetorical flourish yet lost his practical sensibility. In a fairly particularly common theme for him,...