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The Age of Great Expectations and the Great Void
History After “the End of History”
• January 8, 2017
• 3,700 Words • 36 Comments • Reply
The fall of the Berlin Wall in October 1989 abruptly ended one historical era and inaugurated another. So, too, did the outcome of last year’s U.S. presidential election. What are we to make of the interval between those two watershed moments? Answering that question is essential to understanding how Donald Trump became president and where... Read More
Andrew Bacevich: How We Got Here
• January 8, 2017
• 600 Words • 5 Comments • Reply
It’s easy to forget just how scary the “good times” once were. I’m talking about the 1950s, that Edenic, Father-Knows-Best era that Donald Trump now yearns so deeply to bring back in order to “make America great again.” Compared to the apocalyptic fears of those years, present American ones would seem punk indeed, if it... Read More
Alfred McCoy: Washington's Great Game and Why It's Failing
• June 7, 2015
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It might have been the most influential single sentence of that era: “In these circumstances it is clear that the main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.” And it originated in an 8,000 word telegram --... Read More
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Bragging Rights
Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the Twenty-First Century
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Letter to an Unknown Whistleblower
How the Security State’s Mania for Secrecy Will Create You
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And Then There Was One
Delusional Thinking in the Age of the Single Superpower
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