Disunited Nations
Disunited Nations. Peter Zeihen. New York: Harper Business, 2020. The 19th century philosopher G.W.F Hegel famously said, “The Owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with…
American Foreign Policy and the Failure of Reason
Writing recently in Spectator USA, the estimable Dan McCarthy pointed out that the recent failures of American foreign policy are not simply errors in prudential judgment.[*] There…
The Rhetorical War Presidency of Barack Obama
Scholars of presidential rhetoric try to understand how presidents lead through speech. The classical studies of the rhetorical presidency examine how presidents "go public," how they use…
An Independent Empire
An Independent Empire: Diplomacy and War in the Making of the United States. Michael S. Kochin and Michael Taylor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020. …