Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.

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

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

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.

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.