Word: imperiale
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It is a January morning in old Shanghai, and the sky is the color and density of oatmeal, feebly lit by an orange disc as vague as a watermark. In urban China in the 21st century, this is known as a sunny day. At an outdoor marketplace, a teeming tenement...
The young Professor of Physics at Imperial College, London—who spoke last night to a group of about 50 locals and self-proclaimed “physics junkies” in the basement of the Sackler Musuem—has set out to change the field.
America's past imperial ventures, to be sure, have generally been less venal and exploitative than those of the Europeans. And the Bush Administration has disavowed any intention of becoming an imperial power of the traditional kind. Even Richard Perle, the Pentagon adviser who for years has argued for regime...
Leaders like Bush, and Wilson before him, believe to their bones that American ideas are universal ones. Ordinary Americans find it impossible to think that their nation is selfish, or thoughtless, or arrogant. In the Pew survey, 75% of Americans said that the U.S. takes the interests of other countries...
That outcome is not inevitable. For the past 15 months the Bush Administration has concentrated on winning a war against international terrorism and the states that support it. That war is not yet won. But if there is one thing that history tells us, it is that victors need to...