by Andrew J. Bacevich In The Age of Illusions, Andrew J. Bacevich presents a thought-provoking and penetrating account of the post-Cold war follies and delusions that culminated in the age of Donald Trump. Read on for an excerpt.
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The Age of Illusions: Al, Fred, and Homer’s America
Tagged with: Age of Illusions, Andrew Bacevich, Cold War, Excerpt, Political History
Posted in Contemporary History, Military History
Posted in Contemporary History, Military History
Operation Chaos: An Untold Cold War Story
by Matthew Sweet Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They’re young, they’re radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America.…
Tagged with: Cold War, Cold War History, matthew sweet, operation chaos, US history, Vietnam
Posted in Modern History
by Matthew Sweet Stockholm, 1968. A thousand American deserters and draft-resisters are arriving to escape the war in Vietnam. They’re young, they’re radical, and they want to start a revolution. Some of them even want to take the fight to America.…
Posted in Modern History
How Sears Saved Christmas from the Soviets
by Philip Jett It was November 30, 1955, and the Cold War was raging. The U.S. had stockpiled 2,422 atomic bombs while the Soviets had only about 200, though more than ample to annihilate the United States. With the Soviet…
Tagged with: Cold War, NORAD, philip jett, santa, soviet union, US history
Posted in Contemporary History
by Philip Jett It was November 30, 1955, and the Cold War was raging. The U.S. had stockpiled 2,422 atomic bombs while the Soviets had only about 200, though more than ample to annihilate the United States. With the Soviet…
Posted in Contemporary History
Ben Sasse: The Downfall of American Adolescence
by Ben Sasse How did we get to this point—where a large portion of our people in the prime of their lives are stuck in a sad sort of limbo, ordering pizza on cell phones while streaming Netflix from their parents’…
Tagged with: 1960's, 2008 recession, age segregation, baby boomers, Ben Sasse, Cold War, family disintegration, generation x, household collapse, material surplus, moon landing, nuclear family, Political History, protest era, school prayer, secondary schooling, supreme court, the vanishing american adult, US Political History, world war ll, young adults
Posted in Contemporary History, Modern History
by Ben Sasse How did we get to this point—where a large portion of our people in the prime of their lives are stuck in a sad sort of limbo, ordering pizza on cell phones while streaming Netflix from their parents’…
Posted in Contemporary History, Modern History
Guy Burgess: The Life of a Cold War Double Agent
by Andrew Lownie When Harold Macmillan, now the Prime Minister, visited the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in February 1959, Guy Burgess told Harold Nicolson that he was ‘able to give advice at a suitable level’ and remembered how he had…
Tagged with: Andrew Lownie, british history, Cold War, Cold War History, espionage, Espionage History, Guy Burgess, Harold Macmillan, History, Russian History, soviet union, Spy
Posted in Modern History
by Andrew Lownie When Harold Macmillan, now the Prime Minister, visited the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in February 1959, Guy Burgess told Harold Nicolson that he was ‘able to give advice at a suitable level’ and remembered how he had…
Posted in Modern History
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