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Ferguson says that the U.S. has taken Britain’s role but failed to acknowledge the empire that came with it. Empire, Rudyard Kipling once wrote, is a “global burden.” It is that burden that the United States must now accept and wield—American imperialism has to be about more than the golden arches and Britney Spears...
Imperialism is back in vogue. With global stability threatened by failed states (or near states) like Afghanistan and Palestine, the literature on international affairs is suddenly ripe with articles whose authors seem to be channeling Rudyard Kipling. "A new imperial moment has arrived," Sebastian Mallaby, a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote in Foreign Affairs this year, "and by virtue of its power, America is bound to play the leading role." In a much-talked-about new book, The Savage Wars of Peace--the very title is a line from Kipling--Max Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features...
...Imperialism is back in vogue. With global stability threatened by failed states (or near states) like Afghanistan and Palestine, the literature on international affairs is suddenly ripe with articles whose authors seem to be channeling Rudyard Kipling. "A new imperial moment has arrived," Sebastian Mallaby, a columnist for the Washington Post, wrote in Foreign Affairs this year, "and by virtue of its power, America is bound to play the leading role." In a much-talked-about new book, The Savage Wars of Peace - the very title is a line from Kipling - Max Boot, the Wall Street Journal's editorial-features...
Another book about Rudyard Kipling - nearly 50 are listed in the bibliography of The Long Recessional (John Murray; 351 pages) - needs to be exceptional to succeed. The first biography of this icon of the British Empire was published in 1900 when Kipling was 34. Ever since, a steady stream of books covering every aspect of his work and life has sustained interest in a writer who is said to have added more phrases to the English language than any man since Shakespeare...
...this season, it would be well to recall what Rudyard Kipling once penned. He wrote for another people and another time, but his plea has of necessity become...