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Where to intervene? Where to bring democracy? Where to nation-build? I propose a single criterion: where it counts. Call it democratic realism. And this is its axiom: We will support democracy everywhere, but we will commit blood and treasure only in places where there is a strategic necessity—meaning, places central to the larger war against the e
... See moreCharles Krauthammer • Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics
Ben Horowitz • The Architecture of Tomorrow: An Interview With Ben Horowitz
As a result of Austria’s defeat combined with Woodrow Wilson’s doctrine of national self-determination and democratic ideology, a plethora of states weak in structure and inadequate in resources now faced Germany in Eastern and Central Europe. Any future resurgence of German military capacity would have to be defeated by a French offensive into the
... See moreHenry Kissinger • Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy
While there is a body of research that suggests that public housing is correlated with crime, it remains unclear if it is the buildings’ design, the social organization of public housing,21 its mismanagement,22 or the land-use patterns around these places that promotes crime.23 Weighing the relative impact of these possible causal factors is import
... See moreJohn MacDonald • Changing Places: The Science and Art of New Urban Planning
