As Goes Harvard. . . by Donald Kagan Even insiders are beginning to admit how far the elite universities have fallen, but they cannot or will not say…
Peace for Our Time? by Donald Kagan The world today is ours to lose; like Great Britain in the 1920's, we are on the path to losing…
Lessons of the Great War by Donald Kagan Could we have avoided World War I and (therefore) all the horrors that followed it?
Our Interests and Our Honor by Donald Kagan To ignore the intangibles in foreign policy is to be false to history, and unrealistic to boot.
Why America Dropped the Bomb by Donald Kagan The 50th anniversary of the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has produced a wholly predictable debate over…
Colin Powell’s War by Donald Kagan It is only four years since the sensational victory of the United States and its allies that drove the Iraqi…
An Address to the Class of 1994 by Donald Kagan Ladies and gentlemen of the Class of 1994, parents, and friends, greetings and welcome to Yale.
The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace, by Strobe Talbott by Donald Kagan The idea of arms control is surprisingly old. Ancient writers mention a treaty between two Greek cities banning the use…
The First Revisionist Historian by Donald Kagan The title of this essay refers to the Greek historian Thucydides, and it raises several questions. Who was Thucydides, and…
The Trial of Socrates, by I.F. Stone by Donald Kagan There is something charming in seeing someone begin the study of ancient languages and literature late in life after a…
The Long Peace, by John Lewis Gaddis by Donald Kagan In the spectrum of historians writing about the cold war, John Lewis Gaddis belongs in the category of post-revisionists.
