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US Withdrawal From the Middle East

The United States is withdrawing air defense capabilities from several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, with most of the withdrawals...

Summits and the Personal Understanding They Foster

As the week of meetings in Europe ends, many wonder what the varied personalities have brought us. In particular, we wonder whether U.S. President...

What Does It Mean to Rejoin Europe?

U.S. President Joe Bidenā€™s trip to Europe has thus far pivoted around the single issue on which almost the entire world agrees: Biden is...

Russia as a Developing Nation

Richard Moore, who heads Britainā€™s foreign intelligence service, or MI6, was quoted in the Sunday Times as saying that ā€œRussia is an objectively weakening...

An Obituary for My Friend

In 2003, I received a call from someone named Jim Hornfischer, a literary agent whom I had never heard of or met, but who...

A Russian Move in Europe

Russia and the European Union held a conference last week, during which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in a speech: ā€œThe situation remains...

COVID-19: Made in China?

In a recent interview, Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked whether he was confident that COVID-19 developed naturally. He has long maintained that though it...

Bill Gates, Monks and Nerds

Ken Olsen was the CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, a powerful competitor to IBM in massive corporate and government computing. I learned to program...

Gaza: Morality and Reality

Fighting is intensifying between Israelis and Palestinians, though it would be a mistake to think of this as another war. The war had been...

An Evening With Bach

A friend of ours, Shem Guibbory, who is a violinist with the MET Orchestra in New York, came to our house last week for...

From Pandemic to Pan-shortages

With some notable and grave exceptions, the COVID-19 crisis is winding down for much of the world. But as it does, another problem is...

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