For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself.

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Johan Norberg is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and author of “Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of ...

Many advocated the internationalization of atomic weaponry after the war. Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle did not.

László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels ...

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Before Orson Welles, who died 40 years ago on October 10, directed his masterpiece "Citizen Kane," he became famous for his radio adaptation of "The War of the Worlds." It was a radio broadcast that ...