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Liberal Internationalism and Freedom
A review of Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order, by G. John Ikenberry
Policy Review, June/July 2011
Truman, Reagan, and Bush Were Right
Pajamasmedia.com, Feb. 23, 2011
Contemplating Egypt at the Herzliya Conference
Pajamasmedia.com, Feb. 11, 2011
The Goldstone Report and International Law
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2010
Going Backwards in Beirut
The Weekly Standard, Nov. 30, 2009
Obama's Middle East Gambit
The Weekly Standard, Sept. 28, 2009
Bibi's Choice
The Weekly Standard, July 13, 2009
Downwind from Iran: Why They're Nervous in the Gulf
The Weekly Standard, Apr. 6, 2009
Waltzing Among the Rockets
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 16, 2009
Bookends: 11/9 and 9/11
A review of America Between the Wars‚ From 11/9 to 9/11: The Misunderstood Years Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Start of the War on Terror by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, and The Return of History and the End of Dreams by Robert Kagan
World Affairs, Fall 2008
An Unfortunate Israeli Export
The Weekly Standard, Sept. 29, 2008
Plans for Mideast Peace: U.N. Reform Needed for Palestinian Refugees
The Washington Times, Aug. 5, 2008
Peaceless
A review of The Much Too Promised Land: America's Elusive Search for Arab-Israeli Peace by Aaron David Miller
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2008
Answering Edward Said
A review of Defending the West by Ibn Warraq
Policy Review, June/July 2008
After America: Fareed Zakaria's 'Post-American World'
The New York Sun, Apr. 30, 2008
Fighting Jihad
A review of Faith, Reason, and the War against Jihadism by George Weigel
Policy Review, Apr./May 2008
The Iranian Threat Won't Just Go Away
The Jerusalem Report, Mar. 18, 2008
Teaching The Federalist in South Korea
National Review Online, Feb. 29, 2008
The Neocons and Iraq
The Wall Street Journal, Feb. 16, 2008
Exceptionally American
A review of God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World by Walter Russell Mead
Policy Review, Feb./Mar. 2008
Democracy at Home
A review of Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World's Most Popular Form of Government by Michael Mandelbaum
The Weekly Standard, Oct. 22, 2007
Vulgarizing the War Debate
A review of The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror by Stephen Holmes
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2007
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War-Torn Democrats
A review of With All Our Might: A Progressive Strategy for Defeating Jihadism and Defending Liberty, ed. Will Marshall, and The Good Fight: Why Liberals -- and Only Liberals -- Can Win the War on Terror and Make America Great Again by Peter Beinart
Policy Review, Aug./Sept. 2006
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Executive Muscle
A review of The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11 by John Yoo
The New York Post, Jan. 15, 2006
Speaking Their Language
The Weekly Standard (online exclusive), Oct. 4, 2005
A Worthy War Critic
A review of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
Policy Review, Oct./Nov. 2005
Liberty First, Democracy Later
Haaretz, June 10, 2005
Studying Islam, Strengthening The Nation
The Washington Post, Apr. 12, 2005
Liberalism and Power
in Beyond Power and Paradise, ed. Tod Lindberg
New York: Routledge, 2004
Destructive Decision
The New York Sun, July 12, 2004, p. 9
Political Paradoxes
The New York Sun, June 29, 2004, p. 10
The Case for the War in Iraq
The Stanford Daily News and syndicated by Knight-Ridder as a Hoover Institution Weekly Essay, Apr. 16, 2004
Bush and the Liberal Tradition
The Jerusalem Post: Upfront, Nov. 14, 2003, p. 15
What Hath Strauss Wrought
The Weekly Standard, June 2, 2003
Hypocrisy at the U.N.
The Weekly Standard, Mar. 24, 2003, pp. 17-18
Byron at Ground Zero
A review of Romantics at War: Glory and Guilt in the Age of Terrorism by George P. Fletcher
The New Republic, November 4, 2002, pp. 31- 37
The Good Fight
The New Republic, May 10, 1999, pp. 20-21