Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however much it falls short, to a universalist ideal of freedom. — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
The riveting moral power of the Arab Spring comes from its homegrown quality. This is about Arabs overcoming fear to become agents of their… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Interventionism is inextricable from the American idea. If the United States retreats into isolationism, it ceases to be itself ? a nation dedicated, however… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
“As Joseph Roth once wrote, “If there is one nation that is justified in seeing the ‘national question’ as essential to its survival, then… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
“In our case, as for countless other Jews, the price of integration was the loss of millennia of Jewish tradition. The Torah’s instruction gave… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Iraq and Afghanistan have exacted a toll on America - in lives, treasure and standing - that it will take a generation to work… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
“Extreme suffering engenders revulsion. Bert felt what Saul Bellow would call the “sense of personal contamination and aversion” engendered by the “disintegrating bodies” of… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theory is the ultimate refuge of the powerless. If you cannot change your own life, it must be that some greater force controls… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
