Unlike the French or the Italians, for whom conspiracies are an integral part of government activity, acknowledged by all, Americans have been temperamentally prone…

The POW issue was born during the Watergate scandal. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger knew Hanoi was secretly keeping American prisoners, but in the…

How could Sydney Schanberg’s story on Vietnam POWs appear in The Nation and then vanish in the mainstream media? A clue, I think,…

Sydney Schanberg has an illustrious journalistic career going back to the Vietnam War. But in peddling the story of an alleged high-level cover-up of…

The Roger Scruton Reader, edited by Mark Dooley, Continuum, 232 pages

A year into the Obama administration, American foreign policy has yet to experience the change for which many progressives—and some conservatives—hoped. Even…