The Return of History and the End of Dreams By Robert Kagan Alfred A. Knopf, 115 pages, $19.95
Consider the natural history of the Detroit muscle car: The Mustang began life in 1963 as a stripped-down roadster in the European tradition. As the culture and market matured, Ford responded each year with ad hoc Read More
On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams declared that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” Wishing freedom for all, America knew that by intervening to support independence for other nations “she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication” in wars of interest and intrigue. “She might become the Read More
On July 4, 1821, John Quincy Adams declared that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.” Wishing freedom for all, America knew that by intervening to support independence for other nations “she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication” in wars of interest and intrigue. “She might become the Read More
A Declaration of Interdependence: Why America Should Join the World , by Will Hutton. W.W. Norton, 319 pages, $27.95.
What’s wrong with Venus? That’s the question Will Hutton proposes in response to Robert Kagan’s now-famous formulation that “Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus.” In fact, Mr. Hutton argues, Americans ought to Read More
Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order , by Robert Kagan. Alfred A. Knopf, 103 pages, $18.
“Americans are from Mars and Europeans are from Venus,” writes Robert Kagan in the first paragraph of his new book, Of Paradise and Power . No one can accuse him of burying Read More
