Jacob Heilbrunn Profile | The National Interest

Essays

Politics

Samantha and Her Subjects

| 04.19.11

The prophet armed, Samantha Power, has now drafted Obama into her crusade against mass slaughter. Liberal hawks and neocons, reunited. Make way for a profound foreign-policy transformation.

Society

Teuton the Introvert

| 02.23.10

Germany was once the most powerful nation on the Continent. Now it is spiraling toward mediocrity.

Society

Mismanaged for eight years by the Bush administration, the Republican Party is in peril. Neoconservative table scraps are neither appropriate nor wise. But the GOP has another foreign-policy tradition to which it can turn. Presidents from Eisenhow

Society

German Fictions

| 12.01.00

An exchange on Jacob Heilbrunn's recent portrait of Germany's new literary Right.

Society

Germany's Illiberal Fictions

| 06.01.00

From Thomas Mann to Günter Grass, German novelists have for years provided the outside world with an insight into their country's political culture. It's not a pretty picture.

Reviews

Society

A House That Bismarck Built

| 10.25.11

Jonathan Steinberg’s new biography depicts a Bismarck rife with contradictions. Still, it comes dangerously close to conflating the mad Junker’s cautious conservatism with the führer’s nihilism. There is more to Germany than destiny alone.

Society

Introducing Mr. Trevor-Roper

| 08.24.11

For the great historian Hugh Trevor-Roper—whose poison pen spared no ego and whose toxic overconfidence relegated him to a perpetual almost-ran—refusing to become the false prophet of a grand new theory of history was his greatest triumph.

Politics

Mama Grizzly vs. The Establishment

| 12.16.10

As the GOP's leading contender in 2012, can Sarah Palin channel the optimism of her hero Reagan without abandoning her bromides against the tyranny of the ruling class?

Society

Reflections from the Right

| 10.30.08

The conservative movement is cracking up—just look at three memoirs of former administration officials. These new books may engage in justification and self-aggrandizement, but they do prescribe salves for fixing the conservative experiment.

Society

Homo Neoconus

| 07.02.08

Everyone knows about Bill Kristol and Robert Kagan. But what about their intellectual godfather? A look at the original democracy-promoting liberal defense hawk, JFK and LBJ advisor Walt Rostow.

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Commentary

Society

Mosque Anxiety

| 08.09.10

Germany and Indonesia certainly have a radical Islam problem. Stymieing
the construction of mosques here is a surefire way to create one in the
U.S. as well.

Society