Diplomacy 101: A review of Statecraft: And How to Restore America’s Standing in the World by Dennis Ross. Glenn Greenwald on Samantha Power and the foreign policy community. A review of Making War to Keep Peace by Jeane J Kirkpatrick. A review of Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri. An interview with Rowan Scarborough, author of Sabotage: America's Enemies Within the CIA. A review of Seizing Destiny: How America Grew From Sea to Shining Sea by Richard Kluger (and more). A review of The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe by Greg Behrman. A review of 15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century by Stanley Weintraub and Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry. A review of Ike: An American Hero by Michael Korda.
Leon Wieseltier on Our Tacky New Gilded Age: The immorality of the elite .01 percent. The American Dream De-Mythologized: Is the American Dream increasingly belied by societal realities? Who is asking the most pointed questions about the health of American democracy? It’s Not Always Morning in America: We could do with a little more gloominess in American politics. History suggests we aren’t likely to get it. Is the Left unprincipled? The Left is regularly lampooned for its apparent contradictions, but if it can rise to this challenge, then it might be just what was needed. Voting with their hearts: An excerpt from The Political Brain by Drew Westen.
If it's from Europe, forget it: Conservative dismissals of Democratic healthcare plans as "socialist" explains a lot about the hole America is presently in. The Failure of Antigovernment Conservatism: Issues like children's health insurance and maintaining our infrastructure offer progressives the opportunity to finally say, without fear of disastrous political consequences, that sometimes government is not the problem, it's the solution. Dispatches from the Konservetkult: Today's members of the right-wing culture patrol see ideological subtext everywhere they look. The Battle Hymn of The New Republic: Right wing pounces on Beltway bible’s Baghdad diarist; but who’s telling the truth about Iraq? What to make of the New Republic's Baghdad Diarist? Phillip Carter investigates.
