The Old Right journalist Garet Garrett, writing in 1952, understood that empires do not arrive with heralds. They come instead through "quiet aggrandizements of power," accretions so gradual and so dressed in the language of necessity that the citizen scarcely notices...

Imagine Congress debating a bill to integrate Tunisia into the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB). Shared military supply chains, joint research, and development, linked battlefield data, and a U.S. executive agent coordinating defense-technology...

By the summer of 2000, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević appeared firmly entrenched in power. A decade earlier, he had risen to prominence by harnessing Serbian nationalism as Yugoslavia began to fracture. Over time, he consolidated control over political...