The same protean label is also likely to wander onto the Left, given the nontraditional and very pliable nature of our “nationalism.” John Judis may in fact be the harbinger of a new American ...

Yet the fall of the Berlin Wall that year had little to do with American strategy, and the Soviet disintegration was not something the U.S. government expected to happen: it was all accident and luck.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 didn’t save American jobs – it deepened the Great Depression. Canada’s National Energy Program of the 1980s didn’t achieve energy independence – it ...