Hyphenating Foreign Policy
James SchlesingerTony Smith, Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000).From the days of the Founding...
View ArticleMigration and the Dynamics of Empire
James KurthThe first decade of the 21st century, like the first decade of the 20th, is an age of empire. A hundred years ago, however, there were many empires. They included both the overseas empires...
View ArticleTying Down a Cultural Giant
Neil HrabThere's an amusing scene in Gulliver's Travels where the protagonist awakens from a nap and has his first encounter with the tiny people of Lilliput. "I attempted to rise," Gulliver recalls,...
View ArticleThe End of Multiculturalism
Lawrence E. HarrisonFUTURE GENERATIONS may look back on Iraq and immigration as the two great disasters of the Bush presidency. Ironically, for a conservative administration, both of these policy...
View ArticleThe Arrogance of Universal Democracy
Leon HadarDespite failures in Iraq and Afghanistan, some of the West’s most prominent intellectuals still operate under the assumption that liberal values are universal.In his new magnum opus, The...
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