Is it high time for liberals to apologize to the anticommunist right, which correctly gauged the red menace from the start? Sorry, the credit belongs to a brave band of liberal cold warriors beginning with George Kennan.
Jacob Heilbrunn
Jacob Heilbrunn is writing a book on neoconservatism.
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The Moynihan Enigma
Why the Senate’s intellectual giant is a strangely ineffective lawmaker.
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Apologists Without Remorse
Most leftists have accepted that the Soviet Union was an evil empire after all. Such contrition is conspicuously absent, however, from conservatives who defended apartheid.
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Secrets and Lies
Critics from the right often condemned the old liberal foreign policy establishment for an excess of secrecy. Now the right has a new elitist establishment of its own.
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The Clash of the Samuel Huntingtons
It’s one of the fundamental dilemmas of foreign policy: Should American democracy be for export? Samuel P. Huntington makes a powerful case — for both sides.