Why Walter Lippmann wanted to demolish the ideas behind Cold War
As a grand strategist and America’s most powerful media figure at the time, he exuded the integrity missing from today’s discourse.
James W. Carden is Washington columnist for Asia Times and former adviser to the US-Russia Bilateral Presidential Commission at the U.S. Department of State. His articles and essays have appeared in a wide variety of publications including The Nation, The American Conservative, Responsible Statecraft, The Spectator, UnHerd, The National Interest, Quartz, The Los Angeles Times, and American Affairs.
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As a grand strategist and America’s most powerful media figure at the time, he exuded the integrity missing from today’s discourse.
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