Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union disappeared in 1991, so here we are.
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
Trump is a systemic stress test.
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.