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Joseph McCarthy

China Studies in McCarthy's Shadow: A Personal Memoir

Great differences among academics and personal antagonisms in their fields of specialization are common in the best of times.

Mao in History

During the first decades of Mao's China, a time of American self-confidence and strong sense of purpose spurred by the World War II victory, U.S. Sinology for the most part took on an "idealist" rather than a "realist" orientation: hopeful about s

Commentary

Who's Afraid of Sarah Palin?

The Republican establishment should be. She’s the most volatile force in American politics since Joe McCarthy.

A Happy Family

The EU’s biannual summit shows the organization is bereft with internal squabbling. But most Europeans would rather have an imperfect union than none at all.

Books & Reviews

Big Ideas, Big Problems

Policy decisions suffer when the rational center remains silent and catchphrases take over the debate.

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May 27, 2012