The world remembers Francis Fukuyama’s "The End of History" and Samuel Huntington’s "The Clash of Civilizations." But it was Moynihan who got the future right.
Only an unusually firm stand by the non-nuclear nations seems likely to awaken the officials of the nuclear powers from their long sleepwalk toward catastrophe.
The British report on Iraq confirms the worst suspicions of the war's critics, including this: Bush was determined to wage war no matter what the facts.
Russia, China and the USA are among the world’s most violent societies at home and pose the greatest threat to the continued existence of civilization.