I Distinguish, Between Nationalism And Patriotism.

Political Utopias Are A Form Of Nostalgia For An Imagined Past Projected Onto The Future As A Wish.

Memory Is The Only Afterlife I Have Ever Believed In. But The Forgetting Inside Us Cannot Be Stopped. We Are Programmed To Betray.

It Was Reagan Who Began The Realignment Of American Politics, Making The Republicans Into Internationalist Jeffersonians With His Speech In London At The Palace Of Westminster In 1982, Which Led To The Creation Of The National Endowment For Democracy And The Emergence Of Democracy Promotion As A Central Goal Of United States Foreign Policy.

Tad Homer-dixon Is A Rare Kind Of Public Intellectual, Who Combines Real Expertise With A Commitment To Communicate To The Widest Possible Readership. In The Ingenuity Gap He Wants Us All To Wake-up To The Fearful Possibility That Our Blithe Trust In Science And Technology May Be Misplaced. Human Ingenuity May Not Be Capable Of Coping With Two Emerging Crises Of This Century And The Next: Population Growth And Environmental Despoliation. Read Homer Dixon's Wake-up Call And You Will See The Future Very Differently.

Patriotism Is The Secret Resource Of A Successful Society.