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The Clash of the Samuel Huntingtons
Since the end of the Cold War, two opposing schools of thought on American foreign policy have emerged. The first school consists of what we might call triumphalists. Triumphalists argue that America...
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Secrets and Lies
Ever since Harpagus conspired with Cyrus against his uncle, the King of Medea, by placing letters to Cyrus in the belly of a hare, secrecy has always been part of government—and particularly part of...
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The Moynihan Enigma
Daniel Patrick Moynihan was in an apocalyptic mood. As a late winter rainstorm lashed the windows of his darkened Senate office, Moynihan read scornfully from a column by the Washington Post's William...
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Apologists Without Remorse
The end of the Cold War has ushered in a period of contrition on the American left. While most liberals, like Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., never had any illusions about the Soviet regime, the sixties...
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Who Won the Cold War?
Works Discussed in This Essay: Richard Gid Powers,Not Without Honor: The History of American Anticommunism(Free Press, 1995).John Ehrman,The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs,...
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