Democracy and America values today in the world seem again at low tide.

A new book explores the dynamic relationship between presidential rhetoric on foreign policy and the goals America seeks to accomplish abroad

Review of Luke Nichter’s new book “The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968”

Perhaps Meir, who supposedly believed Russia never changes, would also note that Russia never learns.

Claims about a dark “deep state” 50 years ago or now distract from addressing an always more challenging reality.

Reinhold Niebuhr would recognize the nuances that this documentary chose to ignore.  

Ronald Reagan expanded upon the doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction to strengthen American nuclear deterrence

Henry Kissinger has done it again with the publication of this outstanding book on leadership. 

Presumably the consequences in Afghanistan will be tragic as in Indochina.