Review of The Abandonment of the West by Michael Kimmage (Basic Books, 2020) In recent years, certain national security officials have criticized the foreign policies of the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations for upholding a “liberal international order” that “enabled the rise of illiberal powers that seek to exploit that order to their advantage.”[1] Historian and...
Lawyer, soldier, journalist, statesman, and economist: Alexander Hamilton is widely recognized as one of the most talented men of his generation, but he rarely receives sufficient credit for his legacy as a strategist. By championing robust federal institutions and leveraging his country’s economic power, Hamilton formulated a grand strategic approach that would counter European adversaries...
What Alonzo Chappel’s Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery captures about its twenty-something subject that Mr. Miranda’s musical does not is this: his active stillness. While Miranda’s Hamilton – impatient, combative, colorful – is serious fun to watch, no one wants to watch a character lean against the front of the...
