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.

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.

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.

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

The truth is that history constantly presents new problems in the guise of old.

Foreign policy deals across time as well as space.

The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.