The Origins of ‘Big Government’: FDR’s Welfare or Warfare?
Warfare State: World War II Americans and the Age of Big GovernmentJames T. Sparrow (New York: Oxford UP, 2011)In the mid-1980s, William Leuchtenburg, a professor at the University of North Carolina...
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In Plain Sight: The Kremlin’s London Lobby
Although the US-Russian relationship continues to deteriorate in the face of a vengeful Kremlin ban on American adoptions of Russian orphans, Vladimir Putin is still pursuing a strategy of...
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Reality Check: The Hazards of Optimism
Psychological factors have always played a decisive role in the assessment of political trends. Yet until recently they have not been analyzed. Now neuroscientists (rather than political scientists)...
View ArticleAsia’s Next Tigers? Burma, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka
President Obama’s post-election visit to Asia last November was a vivid reminder that America is in the process of making a strategic pivot east. That Burma was one of his destinations was good for...
View ArticleCuba’s Health-Care Diplomacy: The Business of Humanitarianism
For decades Cuba has exported workers to the developing world as “missionaries for the Cuban Revolution.” Usually sent on two-year tours, they are predominantly health professionals, although teachers,...
View ArticleThe Politics of Apology: Hollande and Algeria
When newly elected French President François Hollande squarely denounced the brutality and injustice of the whole era of French colonialism before the Algerian Parliament on December 20, 2012, he...
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Erdogan’s Grand Vision: Rise and Decline
“A great nation, a great power”—the recent Fourth General Congress of Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP party proclaimed this ambitious goal for 2023, the hundredth anniversary of the...
View ArticleA Taste of Freedom: Burma’s Guarded Optimism
The polite Burmese man guiding me through the ramshackle streets of Yangon smiles at my disbelief after he admits he paid over $6,000 for the SIM card in his unimpressive mobile phone a decade ago....
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China’s Looming Crisis: Daunting Troubles Mount
China’s in deep, deep trouble, and its new leaders know it. The growth of the nation’s GDP has continued to slow every quarter since late 2010—though it did tick up slightly in the state’s latest...
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Enough Said: The False Scholarship of Edward Said
Columbia University’s English Department may seem a surprising place from which to move the world, but this is what Professor Edward Said accomplished. He not only transformed the West’s perception of...
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