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Walter Russell Mead

Walter Russell Mead is a professor of foreign policy and humanities at Bard College.

Protestors hold signs outside the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center on opening night of the opera, The Death of Klinghoffer on October 20, 2014 in New York City. The opera has been accused of anti-Semitism and demonstrators protested its inclusion in this year's schedule at the Metropolitan Opera.

'Death of Klinghoffer': Private Grief Turned Into Public Entertainment

The opera is a morally questionable production.

The opera is a morally questionable production.

People fled Mosul, seized by Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) after the clashes between Iraqi security forces and ISIL, start to live in Hazer camp built at the borderline of Mosul by United Nations and Kurdish Regional Government, on June 12, 2014 in Arbil, Iraq.

On Iraq, It Is Amazing What This White House Does Not Know

Obama's foreign policy team was caught totally clueless about the insurgenc...

Obama's foreign policy team was caught totally clueless about the insurgency in Iraq.