August 11, 2012
Who says vice president picks do not matter? Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as his running...
July 23, 2012
Vienna was the center of European creativity in the years between 1780 and 1914. It was the city of Mozart and Beethoven....
November 21, 2011
Today it became official. This U.S. Congress is incapable of making balanced and judicious policy decisions. The failure...
November 14, 2011
Leadership, like all historical phenomena, moves in cycles. Periods of boldness (think of the 1940s, the 1980s, and the early...
September 9, 2011
The newspapers are filled with images and recollections from the September 11,2001 terrorist attacks, but no one seems to...
February 12, 2011
The resignation of Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak marks a major turning point in the Middle East. His thirty-year rule provided...
February 25, 2010
