"Washington... faces an adversary with... the means and determination to mount a sustained challenge... Even if Beijin…"

"Nor did the French colonists have any illusions about how they were financing Indochina's development. When the gover…"

"[F]amily and school taught me that criticism was not only a right but a responsibility of citizenship."

"It has taken many years of education and much of my life to gain some insight into the geopolitical dynamics that pro…"

"This... US imperium was Athenian in its ability to forge coalitions..; Roman in its reliance on... military bases acr…"

"[T]he word empire is a fraught one... [E]mpire is... a form of global governance in which a dominant power exercises …"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."

"And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-la…"

"Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her…"

"Americans have always been especially prone to regard all things as resulting from the free choice of a free will. Pr…"