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Conservatism's choice, among all the great modern revolutions, has always been the American Revolution. It sought not to remake the world--and man--anew by some utopian ideal, but rather to elevate [...]

THE POST-COLD-WAR era has seen a remarkable ideological experiment: over the last fifteen years, each of the three major American schools of foreign policy--realism, liberal internationalism, and neoconservatism--has taken its [...]

It is now the third time this century that we have come under the illusion of having found a new way to reorder the world. These illusions invariably come in [...]

Changing moral norms are indicative of a decadent US society. Deviant behavior is now perceived as a normal aspect of society. Mental illness, single parenthood, homicide and abnormal sexual behavior have been redefined to appear acceptable to social norms.

Can Israel and her neighbors get off the treadmill of attack and counterattack? A leading Israeli, experienced in both war and diplomacy, argues that the end of the cold war [...]

TO THE EDITOR: Charles Krauthammer alleges that after September 11, 'many realists were brought to acknowledge the poverty of realism,' but his description of the 'realist' perspective on foreign policy [...]

Presents a secular argument against research cloning. Overview of the manner in which research cloning functions; Analysis of the principal rationale for research cloning; Doubts about the efficacy of research cloning; Attitude toward reproductive cloning worldwide; Implications of research cloning for the moral prudence that informs the entire enterprise of genetic research.

The weathervanes of conventional wisdom are registering another round of angst about America in decline. New theories, old slogans: Imperial overstretch. The Asian awakening. The post-American world. Inexorable forces beyond [...]

Americans have a deep and understandable aversion to gasoline taxes. In a culture more single-mindedly devoted to individual freedom than any other, tampering with access to the open road is [...]

IN 1983, REPRESENTATIVE GERRY Studds, Democrat of Massachusetts, admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old male page. He was censured by the House of Representatives. During the vote, which he [...]

DURING THE LAST FEW WEEKS in Washington the pieties about torture have lain so thick in the air that it has been impossible to have a reasoned discussion. The McCain [...]

Focuses on challenges facing the U.S. foreign policy after the end of cold war. View that after cold war, it has become tough for the U.S. to decide on its foreign policy; Discussion on the principles on which the U.S. foreign policy is based; Discussion on Internationalism as reflected in the U.S. foreign policy; Problems with liberalism in foreign policy; Deliberation on legalism as reflected in the U.S. foreign policy; Deliberation on what U.S. foreign policy should be in reference to the problems that the world faces today; View that success of U.S. foreign policy would depend on its ability to promote and strengthen the concept of international community.

Explores the negative impact of the international law on the development of the United States foreign policy. Danger of legalism; View of the author regarding the difference between domestic and international life; Notions of legality and illegality in the American foreign policy; Analysis of the American policy in Panama and Nicaragua; Implication of the opening of the United States-Palestine Liberation Organization dialogue for the American foreign policy; Weaknesses of the World Court; View of the author regarding the consequences of allowing policy to be driven by legal formulas rather than by national purpose.