With values and interests in tension, exceptionalism points in more than one direction.
Citizen Statesmen: Cotton on Foreign Policy
Thoughts on Tom Cotton’s speech receiving the Statesmanship Award at the Claremont Institute’s 2018 Churchill Dinner: on citizenship, nationalism, and foreign policy.
Protecting our regime demands more attention to reality than to realism.
The elite imagination is no longer the happiest place on Earth.
Radical self-definition destroys the self and the nation.
America’s superior power is not a moral entitlement.