Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. A graduate of the US Military Academy, he received his Ph. D. in American Diplomatic History from Princeton ...

For the last half century, as administrations have come and gone, the fundamental assumptions about America's military policy have remained unchanged. In a vivid, incisive analysis, Andrew J. Bacevich ...

In this caustic critique of the growing American “penchant for empire” and “sense of entitlement,” Bacevich (The New American Militarism) examines the citizenry's complicity in the current “economic, ...

Even if the bombing was not a criminal act, the modernization of the U.S. nuclear arsenal qualifies as madness.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In a letter written in 1648, the Swedish statesman, Axel Oxenstierna, chancellor to both King Gustavus Adolphus and Queen Christina, counseled, “Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is ...

Life at the dawn of the American century / Andrew J. Bacevich -- The origins and uses of American hyperpower / David M. Kennedy -- Consuming the American century / Emily S. Rosenberg -- The problem of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Max Boot and Eliot Cohen can't figure out why Trump was elected in the first place. The American Ideas Institute is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization based in Washington, D.C.

Has Stanley McChrystal, the American four-star general commanding NATO forces in Afghanistan, committed a firing offense? Based on media chatter, McChrystal himself seems to think so: He apparently ...