Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for February, Freedom, the Common Good, and the Rule of Law: Lippmann and Haye

Last month, as Barack Obama's administration began to prepare for Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping's visit to Washington, someone close to the U.S. vice president leaked that Joe Biden would "take over" China policy. The leaker made the case that Biden

DISTINGUISHED US commentator Walter Lippmann once wrote what is arguably the single most important sentence written on foreign policy: "Without the controlling principle that the nation must maintain its objectives and its power in equilibrium, its purpo

Home to more than 8 million, New York may be the city that never sleeps — but it does have a quiet side, writes Barry Divola. LET'S face it, no one travels to New York to get away from it all. It's not called "the city that never sleeps" for nothing. The

Liberalism used to be a respectable position for intelligent, well-meaning, and informed people. That was a long time ago. No longer. Today the "liberal" faith requires an extraordinary act of ignorance, purposeful forgetting, and constant spinning. To b

For an incumbent president on shaky ground in his bid for a second term, the election-year State of the Union address offers a unique opportunity to kick off the campaign. Since 1948, incumbents facing tough races used the well of the House floor as only