Tyrants have gone by many names – princeps, monarch, czar, Führer, caudillo, duce – but they all have a few things in common. Historians of antiquity...
Democracies and dictatorships have sharply diverging attitudes toward war. Whereas violent conflict was central to the ideologies that helped perpetuate the totalitarian regimes of the...
No alliance is eternal; it lasts only until it is no longer useful for at least one of the parties. That was true for France and...
Israel’s government decided last week to expand its military offensive against Hamas – an effort that, it notes, may include “seizing” Gaza. It is a brutal...
