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For writers, the future has long been a tricky terrain. While the past can prove unsettling and the present uncomfortable, the future…
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At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding…
He lived over 1,000 years ago, but King Canute’s life still has some important lessons for our own time. After conquering England,…
Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until…
All wars do end, usually thanks to a negotiated peace agreement. Consider that a fundamental historical fact, even if it seems to…
From the ashes of a world war that killed 80 million people and reduced great cities to smoking rubble, America rose like a Titan…
A few recent headlines reveal the painfully inhumane, dangerously volatile state of U.S. relations with its own home region, the continent of…
China and the U.S. Face an Unprecedented Crisis If the world is indeed entering a new Cold War, it bears little resemblance…