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Andrew J. Bacevich is professor of history and international relations at Boston University. His new book is The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 12, 2022 Imperial Detritus
Rather than attempting to resurrect the American Century perhaps it's time to focus on the more modest goal of salvaging a unified American republic.
(5 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 10, 2021 Answering the Armies of the Cheated
After the end of the Cold War, virtually the entire American foreign-policy establishment succumbed to a monumentally self-destructive idealogical fever. Call it INS, shorthand for Indispensable Nation Syndrome.
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, February 12, 2021 Beyond Donald Trump -- When Poisons Curdle
Racism, extreme materialism, and militarism each deserve and separately sometimes receive condemnation. But it's the way that the three of them sustain one another that accounts for our nation's present condition.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 9, 2019 Putting Donald Trump's impeachment in context
Trump's critics speak with one voice in demanding accountability. Yet virtually no one has been held accountable for the pain, suffering, and loss inflicted by the architects of the Iraq War and the Great Recession. Why is that? As another presidential election approaches, the question not only goes unanswered, but unasked.