George Orwell: Second Thoughts on James Burnham
Second Thoughts on James Burnham, the review of George Orwell. First published: summer 1946 by/in Polemic, GB, London
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Second Thoughts on James Burnham, the review of George Orwell. First published: summer 1946 by/in Polemic, GB, London
Max Boot, one of the armchair generals who championed the endless wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, in his most recent Washington Post column suggests that President Biden can go down in history as one of our greatest presidents if he mimics the policies of Harry Truman. The United States is being challenged for global preeminence by a great power in the Asia-Pacific, and Max Boot wants the Biden administration to take its cue from a president whose policies in the Asia-Pacific were nothing short of disastrous. There was a good reason why people once said, “To err is Truman.”