Imperial Exceptionalism

By Jackson Lears The New York Review of Books It is hard to give up something you claim you never had. That is the difficulty Americans face with respect to their country’s empire. Since the era of Theodore Roosevelt, politicians, journalists, and even some historians have deployed euphemisms—“expansionism,” […]

The Path to Better Policing

Riots work. Even the Neocon Review is now calling for police reform. Some of the proposals are predictably a bit wimpy. But it’s something. By Robert Verbruggen National Review After the egregious killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police and the days of protests and rioting that followed, […]

Where Are the “Woke”?

Who wants to bet there won’t be many woke activists protesting outside the Israeli Embassy or AIPAC headquarters? I’ve been asked by leftists in the past what it would take for me to change my attitude toward “Woke”/SJW/Antifa types. Burning down the Israeli Embassy or the offices of […]