Well, no, if we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us wouldn’t, even in this more politically correct age. For satisfying the claims of justice in this instance would not only disrupt the presen...
If you were to take account of everything . . . , you would never do anything. It is better to have a brave heart and endure one half of the terrors we dread than to [calculate] all of the terrors and...
That American economic assistance would produce immediate psychological benefits and later material ones that would reverse this trend; that the Soviet Union would not itself accept such aid or allow...
Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film Lincoln is dramatization at its best. It shows the president, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, trying to make good on the claim, in the Declaration of Independence, that all me...
The ugly structure Khrushchev had erected was the most obvious and vivid demonstration of the failures of the Communist system, for all the world to see.
Why, then, did the Americans invest so much in Vietnam when, in comparison with the whole of their interests at the time, so little was at stake there? Thucydidean resemblances, I think, suggest an an...
Without ever having read Clausewitz—at least as far as we know—the president revived that strategist’s great principle that war must be the instrument of politics, rather than the other way around.
The overall population of the German Democratic Republic had declined, since 1949, from 19 million to 17 million.51
I can’t take communism nor can you, but to cross this bridge I would hold hands with the Devil.
Stalin fell into the trap the Marshall Plan laid for him, which was to get him to build the wall that would divide Europe.
Estimates of casualties, civilian and military, are notoriously inexact, but it is likely that some 27 million Soviet citizens died as a direct result of the war—roughly 90 times the number of America...
Several premises shaped the Marshall Plan: that the gravest threat to western interests in Europe was not the prospect of Soviet military intervention, but rather the risk that hunger, poverty, and de...
The prudent leader dreads and reflects on everything that can happen to him but is bold when he is in the thick of action. Xerxes listens patiently, but objects that if you were to take account of eve...
It’s not a very nice solution, Kennedy acknowledged, but a wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.54 The president could not resist observing, though, when he himself visited the Berlin Wall in Jun...
Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepa...
Neither Xerxes nor Artabanus, therefore, would have passed F. Scott Fitzgerald’s test, from 1936, for a first-rate intelligence: the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and...
Its most memorable scene takes place in the piazza at Cesena early one morning in 1502, where the local governor, Remirro de Orco, is found in two pieces, with a bloody knife and a block of wood betwe...
Secretary of State Acheson had even announced publicly that the American defensive perimeter did not extend to South Korea.
The Bolshevik Revolution, which had happened only a quarter century earlier, had in contrast involved the embrace of concentrated authority as a means of overthrowing class enemies and consolidating a...
The subject speaks its own importance, Hamilton announced in the first essay’s first paragraph, comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare o...
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