Host Anne-Marie Slaughter is joined by General Wesley Clark, who oversaw the Kosovo campaign in the late ’90s, and shares his thoughts on what the Balkans can teach us about Syria. Slaughter also talks with public intellectual, author, and New America co-founder Michael Lind, journalist Peter Beinart, and Zócalo editorial director Andrés Martinez about the ever-evolving quest for the American Center.
Peter Beinart started his talk at the Heard Museum in Phoenix with praise for Israel. Israel’s creation, Beinart said, has been a blessing for the Jewish people. It has provided …
The key division in American politics and economics right now isn’t between liberals and conservatives, Michael Lind told an audience at the Hammer Museum. It’s between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians. What …
Boom-and-bust cycles are not new. Our economy has had to redefine itself a number of times throughout our history, as Michael Lind’s magisterial book Land of Promise reminds us. …
In his State of the Union address in January, President Obama challenged the conventional wisdom that America is in decline. “Anyone who tells you that America is in decline or …
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