How the Old World Ended looks beyond how industrialization began to consider what made the way of life it displaced so vulnerable to disruption.
William Anthony Hay
Rather than a threatening, extremist force, Dueck takes nationalism as an established phenomenon with roots in the Founding era.
Public relations seems to have been the Afghanistan War’s most successful operation.
Quigley’s concerns point to the unease, if not fear, that lay behind the optimism and talk of vigor that characterized America during the Kennedy era.
Then as now, where people stood on history and how they understood their place in the flow of time shaped their actions.
Had the costs of war and revolution been understood, Russia might have avoided much of what it suffered over the 20th century.
The centenary of the armistice should prompt some reflection on the dangers of rolling what Otto von Bismarck called the iron dice of war.
Hazony's The Virtue of Nationalism helps build a realist conception of political order that goes beyond theory to understand history.
David Armitage offers tremendous insight into civil wars and how to understand them, but not in the usual social scientific or historical key.
Eliot Cohen presents a world full of threats, but not all of them are best addressed with military power.
The Landsdowne Letter was a moderate and measured statement that called on the Allies to end World War I.
Helprin proposes a military buildup to facilitate a strategy of counter-pressure and deterrence.
