No vehicle for reinvention as powerful as America has ever been or is likely to be created. The vast emptiness of New Mexico, an invitation to the imagination, is a reminder of the space here to forget and begin anew.
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America Is Not Racist
In wake of the Charleston massacre in South Carolina, many on the left want us to believe America is a racist nation dominated by white supremacy and hatred for blacks. They’re wrong.
American Hegemony Is Here to Stay
Is retreat from global hegemony in America’s national interest? No idea has percolated more widely over the past decade—and none is more bogus.
Why Has America Stopped Winning Wars?
American culture is a victory culture. Coded into the American DNA are the fear of failure and the celebration of winning.
The Pull of Middle East Turmoil on Obama
If one of the president’s most enduring foreign policy goals has to been to pull America out of years of deep engagement in the Middle East, the current state of affairs simply will not let him. Syria, Iraq and, most urgently, the birth of the ultra extremist Sunni Islamic State are forcing Obama to rethink US engagement in a region that some say is in the midst of a dangerous meltdown.
The U.S. Can’t Afford to End Its Global Leadership Role
Politicians in both parties dangle before the public the vision of an America freed from the burdens of leadership. What these politicians don’t say, perhaps because they don’t understand it themselves, is that the price of ending our engagement would far outweigh its costs.