Jackson Lears

A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."

Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.

A new book argues that efforts to humanize war with smarter weaponry have obscured the task of making peace the first goal of foreign policy.

Who needs a public health system when sickness is a personal failure?

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.

Considering the religious roots of the 1960s anti-militarist counterculture.

How "liberal democracy" emerged from the wreckage of World War II and became the dominant ideology of our times.