Commentary

The American: Entrepreneurship and American “Soft Power”
If the United States hopes to build stable and decent societies in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq, it will have to scrap prevailing doctrines of international development.

Standpoint: Obama’s Fantasies
A year ago in Cairo, Barack Obama delivered an address promising a new era of wisdom and understanding in confronting the “tensions” between the US and Muslims around the world.

Wall Street Journal: Belief In Action
In “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy,” Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer’s story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a “humanist” or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable.

WORLD Magazine: Plea from the Past
A call for spiritual strength in 1940 offers a lesson for today’s appeasers.

The American: Two Cheers for American Exceptionalism
President Obama rejects American exceptionalism in a manner never before seen in an American commander in chief.

The American: Obama Contra Niebuhr
Supporters of President Obama’s “moral realism” are unaware of many elements of Reinhold Niebuhr’s political theology.