In early November, as Iran’s years-long drought reached an intensity “unprecedented in modern times,” crowds of worshippers gathered at a mosque in Tehran and tilted...
When Yahya Sinwar, Hamas’s then-leader in Gaza, ordered the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel – in which more than 1,200 Israelis were killed, and...
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...
