Monthly Archives: February 2017

Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help Larissa MacFarquhar, New York: Penguin Press, 2015 This is a strange book about an unusual kind of “strangers”, people endowed with impossible idealism and overpowered by … Continue reading →

Retrieving an alternate tradition of US foreign policy… Response to “Friendless Obama needs Middle Eastern allies of convenience”, Financial Times, Wednesday September 24, 2014 Sir, Francis Fukayama and Karl Eikenberry critique President Obama for “overpromising” when he states that the … Continue reading →