Shawn D. Mathis, PhD, MSc (Oxon), MA

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The Voting Booth Is Where the Party Machine Should Stop As the November elections approach, I would ask every American citizen to take seriously the responsibility that comes with the ballot. Study the people whose names appear before you. Listen to what they say. Look at what they have done.

Author’s Note: I have just completed Richard J. Evans’s The Coming of the Third Reich, the first volume of his history of Nazi Germany, and have begun the second, The Third Reich in Power. The first volume has been a remarkable education in the political and institutional history

How does China think about power, political order, war, and its place in the world? Francesco Sisci’s new book, Thinking from the Tip of the Spear: Military Power, Political Order, and the Making of China’s Grand Strategy, approaches those questions through a sweeping historical and comparative lens. One

I wanted two friends to know one another. Professor Andrew Kakabadse was one of my dearest friends, someone with whom I had spent years talking about governance, leadership, institutions, universities, politics, and the human arrangements by which organizations try to hold themselves together. Francesco Sisci had entered my life differently.

Chapter Six The first crack in Hugo Drax’s remarkable public image appears at a bridge table. By the opening chapters of Moonraker, Drax is among the most admired men in Britain: enormously wealthy, celebrated as a patriot, and closely identified with the rocket project that bears the novel’s

The United States enters its 250th year with a historical inheritance far younger than those of the world's older civilizations. Two and a half centuries may seem substantial in a nation's life, yet it is remarkably short compared with the histories of Rome, Greece, China, Britain,

Before dawn, Venice belongs briefly to the people who work on the water. The delivery boats come first. Engines grumble under bridges. Men throw boxes onto wet fondamenta. Somewhere a vaporetto pushes a pale wake against stone steps green with weed. And then, improbably, a gondola appears. It makes almost