The "better-war" thesis blames generals for failed wars and misses the crucial role of faulty strategies. William Westmoreland's Vietnam ordeal offers a case in point. He deserves better than this latest assault by Lewis Sorley.
Rockefeller, Lindsay, Scranton—just three of the “moderates” who failed to keep the GOP from the clutches of Goldwater and Nixon. Geoffrey Kabaservice laments their defeat with a wistfulness that obscures from him their true frustration.
The human-rights movement is nothing more than an unattainable utopian dream used to justify moral ends through ruinous wars of intervention.
Whether it's global warming, racism or deficit spending, beware of the experts you're listening to. They know far less than they claim.
Notwithstanding the book's shortcomings, Mearsheimer and Walt do perform an important service in pointing out how difficult it is to produce pragmatic decisions based on national interest.
Tom DeLay may not see any problems with the phrase, "one vote, one person, one time", but the rest of America might.
Carnes Lord Takes the gloves back off Machiavelli and gives us something we can use.
Robert Bork warns that judicial activism is going global. He doesn't know the half of it.
Why "keeping it in the family" remains popular under dictatorships--and democracies.
It's a mistake, argues Fareed Zakaria, to conflate constitutional liberalism with democracy. It's a mistake, says Thomas Carothers, to exaggerate the extent to which that mistake actually characterizes U.S. policy.
