We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

We Americans really seem to be the only truly non-socialist economy on earth.

But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.

The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.

Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.