Contributions by:
Aaron Leonard
When Mao Tse-Tung was alive he was cast alternately as bandit, communist leader, ruthless dictator, elder statesman, and mass murderer. Since his death the characterization is less ambivalent: hedonistic despot, reckless utopian, unbridled monster. The change is anchored in the twists and turns of history. The unfettering of capitalism in the wake of the collapse…
Read Full Article...Reviews of Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War (Metropolitan Books, 2010); Philip S. Golub, Power, Profit & Prestige: A History of American Imperial Expansion (Pluto Press, 2010); Chalmers Johnson, Dismantling the Empire: America’s Last Best Hope, (Metropolitan Books, 2010). America’s supreme position in the world is coming ever more into question…
Read Full Article...Amy J. Binder and Kate Wood, Becoming Right: How Campuses Shape Young Conservatives. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013 One picks up Becoming Right with high expectations. Perhaps we will see the roots of the conservatism, incubating on campus, laid bare. Maybe the larger mechanisms of this wholly misnamed ideology will be exposed. Certainly the…
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