Max Boot

Republicans used to bash President Barack Obama for alienating American allies, but Trump is turning off our partners like no one ever…

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I am white. I am Jewish. I am an immigrant. I am a Russian American. But until recently I haven't focused so…

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I am by no means suggesting that everyone who uses the neocon label is doing so as an anti-Semitic smear, but the…

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Anyone anywhere - as long as you live in a country that does not censor the Internet - can now read this…

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There is little doubt that our society is changing rapidly, but one thing will never change as long as we remain a…

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You simply can't understand the present if you don't understand the past. There is no more alarming case study of the consequences…

— Max Boot

History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.

— Max Boot

But while I am proud to be an American, I am ashamed of what the Trump administration is doing in our name.…

— Max Boot

There is a small group of 'Never Trump' conservatives. But it is a small group, and I've actually been surprised that there…

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Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.

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Diplomatic eminences often natter on about preventive action, making the obvious point that it's better to cure festering ills before they metastasize…

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I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.

— Max Boot

Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions.

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Joining the Grand Old Party seemed like a natural choice for someone like me who fled the Soviet Union as a boy…

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Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.

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You can debate when the conservative movement became a racket - I nominate 1996, the year Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes created…

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Once upon a time - in the days of Margaret Thatcher and John Major - I would have rejoiced in a Conservative…

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Whether I realize it or not, I have benefitted from my skin color and my gender - and those of a different…

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I think, of the kind of erratic behavior that many of us feared once Trump came into office. And I think you're…

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Everyone from Silesians to Sicilians to Scots seems to want autonomy or independence. The British voted to leave the European Union, and…

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Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.

— Max Boot

There has been an unspoken assumption among establishment Republicans that all they have to do is wait out Hurricane Trump and then…

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Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.

— Max Boot

In the 16th and 17th centuries, as many as 60,000 people were executed in Europe as suspected witches. But it would be…

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At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.

— Max Boot