History Unfolding

Here is this week's post,  my interview with Glenn Loury about certain biases in history.   It lasts about 50 minutes.

 Everyone seems to believe that the withdrawal from Afghanistan is in some sense the end of an era, and I am trying to figure out what that ...

 During the more than twenty years that I taught strategy and policy at the Naval War College, I had many occasions to think about the milit...

Lexington and Concord, the firing on Fort Sumter, and Pearl Harbor  were the catalytic violent events in the first three great crises in Ame...

 Many of us have books on our shelves that we have been intending to read for decades.  I got two French novels of that list during and afte...