The great Robert Higgs lists Axioms of Political Geometry. My two favorites: The shortest distance between a free society and a totalitarian society passes through war. The whole of society is greater than the part that government officials can comprehend, and much...

According to Bonnie S. Glaser at the Center for Strategic International Studies (no relation), next year "could see a shift in Chinese foreign policy based on the new leadership’s judgment that it must respond to a U.S. strategy that seeks to prevent China’s...

At this point in the international negotiations with Iran, people seem to be reading into it whatever is beneficial for their own arguments. They're either bound for resolution in the third round in Moscow later this month, or they're doomed to failure because, hey,...

Nikolas Kozloff writing at al Jazeera had recently brought to light the Obama administration's construction of a new military base in Argentina. Local authorities and official U.S. explanations insist the "Resistencia" base is for civil and humanitarian purposes...

From the New York Times:

The aspect of the Syria issue that is getting the most attention right now has the least to do with calls for intervention. I wouldn't for a second belittle the suffering people there have faced; what I'm saying is that those demanding that America do something about...

The International Criminal Court has sentenced Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia "to 50 years in prison over his role in atrocities committed in Sierra Leone during its civil war in the 1990s," reports the New York Times. As is common for heads of...