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In the context of transatlantic tensions it is argued that there are no fundamental disagreements or differences between the US & Europe & that existing differences are often more apparent than real; when the differences are real they are in all consequential cases agreements to disagree. Further, the views of Americans & Europeans have been converging for some time and will continue to do so. Attention is given to the implications of the fact that neither the US & Europe nor any European countries would go to war with each other; NATO & the Atlanticist ethical community; the context in which the recent transatlantic disagreement resides; & examples of European influence on the US. Adapted from the source document.

Considers the future of neoconservatism in terms of how it has evolved according to its own premises in the direction of a politics dedicated to the preservation & extension of liberal order. At issue is presenting the four most important ways in which the intellectual history of neoconservatism served as a precursor or progenitor of the future politics derived from liberalism's universal aspiration. To shed light on neoconservatism's liberal legacy, liberalism's origins in the nature of politics itself is explored. Attention is then given to neoconservative as a response to the failings of postwar US political liberalism & an effort to conserve liberalism, the neoconservative critique of capitalism & the neoconservative abandonment of that critique, the components of neoconservative anticommunism (moralism & the notion that communism was evil) & its manifestation in foreign policy as a quest to expand liberalism, the neoconservative view of US exceptionalism. It is argued that despite liberalism's particularistic nature, it should be defended & extended. Adapted from the source document.

Examines the ideological, conservative, populist, and triumphalist character of the doctrine of Republican progress personified in Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House, 1995-98, and the influence of his agenda on President Clinton's agenda; US.

Lindberg reviews 'The Corruption of American Politics: What Went Wrong and Why' by Elizabeth Drew.

Lindberg reviews 'Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War' by Mark Bowden.