Jacques Chirac Books & Reviews

The Best Defense

Can John Mearsheimer's analysis of "offensive realism" explain or guide U.S. foreign policy? Better, perhaps, than the author realizes.

Kissinger's Wisdom . . . and Advice

An eminent realist reacts to a pre-eminent's vision for 21st-century geopolitics.

Home and Abroad

At this point, it is too early to tell whether to be optimistic or whether the only healthy response to our current domestic economic discontents will be to lower expectations. Perhaps books like The End of Affluence and The Good Life

Enough Said; Review of Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993)

What we have here is a book on literature, plus two or three pamphlets that contain much ranting, all barely held together in a bad case of intellectual sprawl.

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May 26, 2012