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 »