For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.
We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.
America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.
Our culture is teleological-it presumes purposive development and a conclusion.
The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.
Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.