DAVID A. BELL is Dean of Faculty and Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author, most recently, of The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It.
Jackson Diehl on sectarianism in Syria, Elliott Abrams and Robert Wexler on Iran's nuclear threat, and John Rosenthal on Germany and the origins of the euro crisis. Plus US-Pakistan relations, academia's new communism, Spain's economy, and more...