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Paul Wolfowitz

McCain's Choice

Neoconservatives and realists are battling to set the GOP’s foreign-policy agenda—and the future of American diplomacy hangs in the balance.

The Freedom Crusade, Revisited

Leslie H. Gelb, Daniel Pipes, Robert W. Merry and Joseph S. Nye offer their reactions to Robert W. Tucker and David Hendrickson on the Bush Doctrine.

The Neoconservative Moment

Charles Krauthammer's "democratic globalism" fails as a guiding principle of foreign policy and creates more questions than answers.

Commentary

Are They Right?

Much has been made of the neoconservative influence over U.S. foreign policy. In a new book, TNI senior editor Jacob Heilbrunn tries to make sense of the house that Kristol built.

War vs. Limited Government

The decision for war in Iraq looked decidedly liberal, at odds with the usual conceptions of individual liberty and limited government. Conservatives and libertarians should remember this in future decision-making.

Wolfowitz vs. the World Bank: A Fight without Heroes

What does Paul Wolfowitz have to lose by leaving the World Bank? He seems to share a neoconservative world-view that requires a constant sense of a history-shaping mission.

Blogs

Iraq as South Korea: An Interventionist Delusion

Iraq as the next South Korea? Sounds more like an indefinite, dangerous babysitting mission.

Books & Reviews

Night and Fog

Alan Furst recreates the atmosphere of Europe's second Dark Ages (1933-45) as few others have. Today, Western civilization is again under attack, and Furst can teach us a great deal.

A Champion for the Bourgeoisie

A fictional 19th-century detective disdains Russia's intelligentsia and preaches a bourgeois sermon on virtue and responsible citizenship to Russia's nascent middle class.

Bad Laws Make Bad Judges

Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.

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February 12, 2012