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Eliot A. CohenWashington Post |
To demand that universities take an institutional stand on issues of the day is to misunderstand their role. The protest season at universities...
Western leaders do themselves no good when they avoid confronting the awfulness of war. In Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part II, the Earl of Warwick...
To understand what we are observing, we have to push out beyond the frame of what we at first see. My wife the photo archivist likes to point out that...
If the United States doesn’t do anything, the coming seasons will be bleaker—and not just in Ukraine. Kyiv is, as ever, a lovely city, made more...
His excoriating critique of Western liberalism is more relevant than ever. While clearing out a storage room filled with books, I came across a slim...
Ukrainian General Valerii Zaluzhny had the second-most-difficult job in the world. His boss has the most difficult one. On Thursday, Ukrainian...
America’s segmented, limited, and naive policy approach toward Iran continues to fail. The U.S. needs to try something new. Sooner or later, it was...
The U.S. knows how to put an end to attacks on shipping. Months after the first salvos of missiles from Yemen’s Houthi militias, the United States...
No state is immune from the horrors that have befallen Israel. “That film,” my friend Mick Ryan, a retired Australian general, said to me,...
President Claudine Gay is in a tough spot. The Harvard Corporation deserves to be in a much tougher spot. Like many alumni of Harvard, I have been...
The ideals I’m celebrating this Thanksgiving This Thanksgiving, three generations of my family will drink a champagne toast, eat the hors...
If we wish to understand the war’s likely course, we must ask how both sides conceive their objectives and the broadest ways in which they intend to...
Don’t bar the bard In this time of bipartisan acrimony, many on the left and on the right share one point of consensus: Shakespeare is a problem....
We are in the fight of our lives There is a place for geopolitical and strategic analysis of Israel’s war with Hamas and its allies and...
The Israel Defense Forces' sin, like that of many political superiors, is hubris. The history of the Israel Defense Forces is a history of failure...
On a recent visit, a series of conversations brought home to me just how pernicious our falsehoods have been. For some 50 years, American policy...
Why have the experts been so persistently wrong? Prognosticating about war is always a chancy business. Even the most arrogant pundit or politician...