Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.
I think if you're going to master policy, especially world affairs, you've got to know history.
Trump is a systemic stress test.
The Obama foreign policy, in broad strokes, has been a disaster.
Ronald Reagan was so self-contained and impenetrable that his official biographer was practically driven mad trying to figure him out.
I believe that the pursuit of truth and right ideas through honest debate and rigorous argument is a noble undertaking.
