Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

If a caterpillar doesn't know its future has wings, it hardly experiences itself as land-bound.

It is true that I have known Straussians almost all my life. And the one thing I was taught about them from the earliest age is that they are wrong.

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

When it comes to setting national priorities, determining threats, defining challenges, and fashioning and implementing foreign and defense policies, the United States and Europe have parted ways.