Monthly Archives: January 2007

This piece published in today’s Guardian is extracted from the forward to the paperback edition of America at the Crossroads, to be published by Profile Books in the UK and Yale University Press here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2002439,00.html Link to a discussion of … Continue reading →

The following is a link to an article I just published in the Yomiuri Shimbun on the credibility of the US nuclear deterrent in Asia. Japan is seriously considering developing its own nuclear deterrent in the wake of the North … Continue reading →

Zbigniew Brzezinski, an esteemed member of our editorial committee, weighs in on President Bush’s speech on Iraq, as well as the underlying policy implications, in the “Washington Post.”   “Five Flaws in the President’s Plan” http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011101572.html

Marty Lipset passed away on New Year’s Eve, after a long period of disability following a stroke in 2001. His friends and former colleagues are busy organizing an appropriate memorial service for him in the Washington area, but in the … Continue reading →

In George Orwell’s “Animal Farm,” Sugarcandy Mountain is a pretend land of sweetness promised to the animals by Moses, a pet raven who belongs to the owner of Manor Farm. The only promise more enticing to the collection of pigs, … Continue reading →