War in Afghanistan Books & Reviews

A Ticking Bomber

Raymond Bonner | Sep 02, 2008
There is no simple answer to the causes of terrorism. But three books offer insight into the complexities of man and his motivation to kill. These explanations come not from academic tomes, nor expositions by the burgeoning cottage industry of ter

Losing Mythic Authority

Michael Vlahos | Apr 25, 2007
As a result of America’s misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have lost the global clout we derived from our role in World War II—for good.

Killing to Make a Killing

J. Peter Pham | Sep 01, 2005
Suicide terrorism may be more rational than meets the eye.

Pride and Prejudice

Paul Hollander | Sep 01, 2004
Anti-Americanism takes many forms -- most of them unfair. But as long as it strives to be a City upon a Hill, America Must learn to live with it.

Banal and Dubious

Andrew J. Bacevich | Sep 01, 2000
Pedestrian books can sometimes serve salutary purposes.

How the West Was Spun

John O'Sullivan | Mar 01, 1999
Christopher Coker's Twilight of the West looks at present geopolitical trends and predicts the West's dissolution; David Gress, in From Plato to Nato, sees them as yet another episode in the long struggle between the mainstream W

...And the Road to Vienna

Noel Malcolm | Mar 01, 1999
In Blacklisted: A Journalist's Life in Central Europe, Paul Lendvai recounts his remarkable journey from the Nazi wartime death marches, to his days as a young communist apologist, and on to his later "crusade of information" against comm

Pericles and 'Big Bill' Thomson

Clifford Orwin | Mar 01, 1999
James Ceaser's Reconstructing America locates the "real America" in the ideas and values of the Founders. But a purely political conception of America is inadequate.

The Man Who Saved the Day--Sort of . .

Paul Wolfowitz | Sep 01, 1998
The Dayton Agreement that ended the war in Bosnia--or, more precisely, that produced a ceasefire which has so far lasted almost three years--is a flawed agreement, and its flaws are the product of a flawed policy.

Road Hogs, Review of Joshua Muravchik's The Imperative of American Leadership

Adam Garfinkle | Jun 01, 1996
Two of the books reviewed here describe how Joshua Muravchik and the late Eric Nordlinger read the post-Soviet map and would have us travel upon it. Both recommend sharp turns at high speeds. The third contains the counsel of Peter Rodman, a man l

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