Summer 2008: In This Issue

Peter Beinart

John McCain has made this much clear: The 2008 election will be about national security. Barack Obama will discuss the economy, where he has an edge. He will even discuss Iraq, where his position enjoys public support. But McCain will broaden the discussion to the larger question ...
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An Exchange: Neocon Nation?

David Rieff, George Packer, Ronald Steel, Robert Kagan

In the spring issue of World Affairs, Robert Kagan tackled the myths and misapprehensions that have become synonymous with “neoconservatism.” Three of the authors named in Kagan’s essay—David Rieff, George Packer, and Ronald Steel—respond below in short essays of their own. Kagan then replies ...
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Falling Upwards: Declinism, The Box Set
Robert J. Lieber
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Dear Mr. President ... On Sovereignty
Christopher Hitchens
Righteous Among the Editors: When the Left Loved Israel
Ronald and Allis Radosh
Peace At Last: The Pacification of the West
Andrew J. Bacevich
Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism, c. 1776
Robert Kagan
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A (Slightly) Better War: A Narrative and Its Defects
Gian P. Gentile
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Skin In the Game: A Conservative Chronicle
Adam Bellow
Do Less Harm: The Lesser Evil of Non-Intervention
Todd Gitlin
Exile Off Main Street: Refugees and America’s Ingratitude
Anna Husarska
A Letter From the Editor: Summer 2008
Lawrence F. Kaplan
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