Editor’s Note: Peter Bergen is CNN’s national security analyst, a vice president at New America, a professor of practice at Arizona State University and the host of the Audible podcast “In the Room” ...

Antechamber to Heaven, a large reception room in the Baroque style. A door opens and an angel ushers in Christopher Hitchens, dressed in hospital clothing. The angel gestures for CH to take a seat. He ...

Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (New York: Verso, 2001), 160 pp., $22. On May 29, 2001, French officials appeared at the Ritz Hotel in Paris with a summons for former U.S. Secretary ...

(CNN) — America is the “shining city on a hill,” a moral force for good whose ideals should be spread worldwide, according to the idealistic interpretation of US foreign policy. Backers of that view ...