Pumphrett Finds Work for Idle Hands
“It was all the fault of that damned dog,” declaimed my friend and former schoolmate Pumphrett as we walked on the Virginia side of the Potomac opposite the Jefferson Memorial. I had always preferred...
View ArticleThe Great Transformer
What does a book written during World War II by a Jewish refugee from Austria-Hungary tell us about the 2016 election, the abiding threat of fascism, the retreat from globalization and how, in the past...
View ArticleWill the State Department Rise Again Under Pompeo?
My old colleagues at the State Department are all a-bubble with the thought that a new dawn of relevance is coming to Foggy Bottom. Secretary-designate Mike Pompeo has Trump’s ear—or so it is said—in a...
View ArticleThe INF Treaty Was Built on Fantasy—But It Was Useful Fantasy
Word of the demise of the Intermediate Nuclear Forces reawakened many happy memories for me. I was in the UK in 1982 as principal diplomatic representative for the deployment of Pershing and Ground...
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