Henry Kissinger

A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic unfreedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. - Herbert Marcuse

Vice President Dick Cheney in a June 20, 2007 file photo. (Photo: Doug Mills / The New York Times) It is axiomatic by now: when someone leaves …

President Barack Obama noted last week after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize that the United States “has helped underwrite global security for more than six decades.” While this was …