Archive for 'The American Interest'
Dueling Anthems
Posted on 09. Jul, 2010 by Diana Muir Appelbaum.
The last time Spain faced the Netherlands in a really big match they were wearing cuirasses and carrying swords. Nobody will be killed at Sunday’s World Cup match, but the Dutch will sing the same anthem—Het Wilhelmus—that they sang in 1573 at the siege of Haarlem and in 1577 when the Prince of Orange’s forces [...]
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Filling in the Blanks
Posted on 09. Jun, 2010 by Neal M. Rosendorf.
The Washington Post reported this week that a number of Arizona politicians, both Republican and Democratic, are deeply concerned over their state’s developing reputation for intolerance and bigotry. One interviewee, Grant Woods, a Republican former state attorney general, lamented the current state of affairs: “To be an Arizonan is to be a part of Mexico. [...]
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Comment Policy
Posted on 17. Apr, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead.
Some months ago, I wrote about Milton’s Areopagitica: “Where there is much desire to learn,” wrote Milton, “there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.” For Milton—and I think he was right—the Truth wasn’t something we inherited and had to coddle; [...]
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Arms Control Returns as Farce
Posted on 29. Mar, 2010 by Adam Garfinkle.
On Thursday, March 25, the newspapers announced on their front pages a U.S.-Russian nuclear arms agreement. A slow news day, maybe, I thought. This sort of thing would have deserved front page coverage before 1991; now it may still, but that’s not so evident. During the Cold War, strategic arms control was bound up with [...]
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Alexander M. Haig, Jr.
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by Adam Garfinkle.
It is appropriate, I think, to pause and reflect when a death finally brackets a part of one’s life. I briefly worked for Alexander Haig back in 1979-80, just before he became Secretary of State. I was a junior aide only, and he did not invite me, fresh out of graduate school as I was [...]
