Andrew J. Bacevich

When the definitive catalogue of twentieth-century horrors is assembled, the agonies endured by Bosnia in the 1990s are unlikely to rate many pages. It’s been that kind of century. Yet the ongoing debacle in Bosnia-more specifically, the utter ineffectiveness of U.S. efforts to end the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Power of Culture: Critical Essays in American History Edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T. J. Jackson Lears University of Chicago Press, 292 pages, $42 Fables of Abundance: a cultural History of Advertising in America By Jackson Lears Basic Books, 492 pages, $30 New times rightly demand new . . . . Continue Reading »

I “These Colors Don’t Run.” By the time the controversy over Vietnam had reached its height, that defiant slogan had become in its way emblematic of an era. Accompanied by a prosaic image of Old Glory, it appeared across the vast expanse of middle America: stuck to the bumper of . . . . Continue Reading »

Does the Clinton Administration have a foreign policy worthy of the name? A recent blitz of so-called Major Foreign Policy Statements by senior Administration officials”culminating in an address to the UN General Assembly by the President himself”would have us believe so. Of the several . . . . Continue Reading »