In this detailed examination of American cultural and political institutions, journalism, and education, the author, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, shows how a disdain for objective truth and principles has created a moral and intellectual crisis that threatens the foundation of our legal, political, and social order.
Meticulously researched and textured with fascinating details, these essays "show" as well as "tell" where Russia has been in the past fifteen years and where it is going.
This book explores a problem that has been building quietly for years: the military has been expending without expanding or even replacing what has been spent.