"Journey With Maps: U.S. Task in Liberia," July 31

2004

"Religion: Why It Is Good for America When It Causes Conflict Elsewhere"

"What Is Going On? And Where Do We Go From Here?"

"Which Is Greatest: Philosophy, History, Political Theory, or Literature?" January 29

"American Empire in Literature, Architecture, and Diplomacy," course description, March

"The Role of Religion in the Modern World," March

"Dostoevsky's Demons," April

"Panel: The Bush Administration Preemption Doctrine and the Future of World Order," American Society of International Law, April 3

"Searching for Grand Strategy," May

"Veterans Awareness Day," May 28

"Hiawatha," June

"Horace, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare: Roman Virtues in Anthony and Cleopatra," June

"What Qualities Enabled the Romans to Become Masters of the Mediterranean World as Demonstrated in the First Pages of Caesar's Gallic War," June

"Shanghai," themes and readings, June 8

"The Diplomatic Education of Henry Adams," July

"Gulliver on Governance," July

"Changing Power Centers: The Evolutions of American Alliances and Friendships," interview for Eisenhower Security Conference, July 12

"Epics of Grand Strategy," August

Proposal

Preface, Introduction, I. The Human Condition

II. On the Importance of Untenable Theories

III. Elements of Statecraft

IV. Getting and Keeping

V. Translatio Imperii

VI. "In the Beginning All the World Was America"

VII. Statecraft

VIII. Language Lessons

IX. A Sense of Intelligence

X. Why Are There Wars?

XI. Strategies on the Grand Scale

XII. The Pope and the Polis

"Keflavik, Ramstein, Clark, Aviano...," August 24

"Metahistory," course description, September 20

"Saddam's Grand Strategy," October

Talking points on North Korea, Iran, Russia, The Power Shift in the East, The Task of Building a Better World Order, Europe, Israel and the Palestinians, Turkey, November

"How to Save the U.N. (If We Really Have to)," December 7

"Revolution," outline and reading list, December 10

2005

Cultural Literacy Test

"Aide-Memoir," January

"Edmund Burke," January

"Pope and the Polis," draft, April

"Thirtieth Anniversary of the Fall of Saigon," April

"Marx," April 1

"Sigma Phi Epsilon," April 9

Reader's report on Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror by Mary Habeck, May

"The Rogues Are Losing," October

The Arab Islamic World and the War on Terror, October 6

"The New Testament," November 7

"Writing's Place in Statecraft," November 16

"International Ideas and Institutions," course description and book list, November 29

2006

Reader's report on The Future of the Bush Doctrine, proposal by Stanley A. Renshon

Comments on book proposal, Why Biography Matters – Johnson and Boswell: Their Importance Today , Claude Rawson, editor, February

"Architecture of Power," Spring

Review, "MacArthur in the Mideast?" Yale Alumni Magazine, March/April

"Splendid Encounters," March

Review, "Complicity with Evil: The United Nations in the Age of Modern Genocide" by Adam LeBor, March 27

On Caspar Weinberger, March 29

"The U.S. Role in the World," outline, April

Remarks on John Gaddis, Courtyard Dedication, Davenport College, Yale University, April 6

"Literature of Statecraft," course outline, June 23