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inside washingtonFrom the heart of America’s political establishment, John C. Hulsman of the Heritage Foundation gives inside perspective on the issues as they develop in Washington and spread across the globe.
In the United States, evangelicals are the neo-cons of Christianity, says John Hulsman. With its streak of religious certitude, we should never underestimate the centrality of moralism to the country’s foreign policy. Read the rest of this post...
What’s on the political horizon for 2005? John Hulsman gazes into Washington’s crystal ball. Read the rest of this post...
The neocons have won Washington’s post–election shuffle. Game over? Not if Europe can get its act together, says John Hulsman. Read the rest of this post...
The real issue at stake in the presidential election is the utopian vs. realist struggle for American foreign policy, says John Hulsman. America’s role in the world is the subject of a great ideological battle. Read the rest of this post...
What is it like to work in the Washington political establishment at election time – especially when so much is at stake? John Hulsman has the insider’s story. Read the rest of this post...
By providing a confident, coherent narrative of the weakness of George W Bush’s anti–terror strategy, John Kerry has revivified his campaign for the presidency, says John Hulsman. Read the rest of this post...
President Bush is surging ahead in the polls. Can John Kerry catch him? Only if he stops talking about Vietnam and starts painting the big picture, advises John Hulsman of the Heritage Foundation. Read the rest of this post...
The modern American party convention is country fair not clash of ideas. But for John Hulsman, the tensions inside the Republican party between foreign policy realists and neo-conservatives, the small-government party base and the empire-building leadership, make its New York gathering essential to follow. Read the rest of this post...
Iran is building The Bomb, but the US and Europe are sleepwalking towards disaster. The West must wake up to this dangerous crisis, says John Hulsman. Read the rest of this post...
A passionate contest between neo-conservatives and realists for control of over Republican foreign policy will explode after the November 2004 election. John Hulsman, in Washington, maps the landscape before battle. Read the rest of this post...
John Kerry’s confusions over Iraq reflect the internal struggle for the Democrats’ foreign policy soul, says John Hulsman. Read the rest of this post...
Ronald Reagan had two great secrets to his success: he was open-minded and tactically flexible. John Hulsman draws lessons for George W. Bush. Read the rest of this post...
Why is Washington so uninterested in European Union enlargement? Because Europe represents outmoded statism, economic stagnation, political disunity and military inconsequence, says John Hulsman. Read the rest of this post...
Washington is reeling from the revelation that American soldiers have tortured prisoners in Iraq. Things are so bad, says John Hulsman as he listens to Donald Rumsfeld’s Senate hearing, it is time to return to first principles. Read the rest of this post...
The shared horror and sympathy following the Madrid terrorist bombings reveal a transatlantic relationship alive but in need of unity against a common enemy, says John C. Hulsman of the Heritage Foundation. Read the rest of this post...
Donald Rumsfeld is the neo-conservative architect of war, Colin Powell the cuddly multilateralist. Right? Wrong. Behind the caricature is a titanic Washington struggle far more complicated and interesting. Read the rest of this post...
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