David A. Westbrook

Our nation has begun a modest surge in Afghanistan, ostensibly as a prelude to substantial withdrawal of ground forces from that country, if not from Southwest Asia altogether. The decision to surge seems to be based upon two key assumptions… . Continue Reading »

Alexis de Tocqueville was born in 1805, traveled across the United States and some of Canada for nine months in 1831, and returned to France to publish Democracy in America, widely regarded as the best single book about that historical, political, economic, and cultural phenomenon known as . . . . Continue Reading »