The ongoing explosion of books on terrorism and the global war on terror simultaneously adds to our understanding of the subject and reveals just how muddled much of our thinking is. The key terms: terror and the global war on …
The U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 may have been the war to end all alliances. It was an expression of a new assertive American interventionism that had scant regard for global norms and institutions when these stood in the …
WMD: Threat and Strategies
James B. Rule invites the left to think carefully about foreign policy, and in particular about the use of military force by the United States (“On Evils Abroad and America’s New World Order,” Dissent, Summer 1999). We should accept Rule’s …
In the 1980s, democracy came to Latin America. Most countries created democratic institutions. Unparalleled opportunities seemed to open for the left. In Brazil, Argentina, and Peru, center-left governments were voted into office. Elsewhere (in Chile and El Salvador), Christian Democrats …
Very soon after the mass production of literature-writing machines began and started working with high efficiency, it was noticed that with every passing day critics were disappearing. The phenomenon had an immediate and easily perceptible cause: the trade of the literary …
