Competition with China really isn’t a zero-sum game. So why does it feel that way?
Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inBooks, January/February 2014, Magazine, Politics
Letters from Camelot
Even in his private correspondence, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. was an unapologetic Kennedy partisan.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2013
Scribimus Indocti Doctique Poemata Passim*
How the Romans invented Facebook, sort of.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2013
Guerrillas in the Midst
Why our next war will be fought in cities.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2013, Politics
Campaign 2012: How We Dodged a Bullet
Mitt Romney didn’t lose because of the GOP’s far-right agenda. That’s what’s scary.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, November/December 2013, Politics
Dark Sidekick
How Dick Cheney controlled, and lost control of, George W. Bush.
Posted inBooks, Law and Justice, Magazine, September/October 2013
The Incurious Investigator
Why introspection was too dangerous for Washington’s bravest sleuth.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Magazine, September/October 2013
Hands Across the Water
Can a trade pact with Europe help America tame China?
Posted inBooks, Magazine, Politics, September/October 2013
What Tea Party Republicans Can Learn From Woodrow Wilson
Averse to compromise, he died a bewildered and broken man.
Posted inBooks, Magazine, September/October 2013
Brothers in Armchairs
For Allen and John Foster Dulles, regime change was an extension of the family business.
