• How to Keep from Starting a New Cold War in a Multipolar World

    How to Keep from Starting a New Cold War in a Multipolar World

    'Acting as an imperial power, Russia now seeks to redraw borders by force and to divide the world, once again, into blocs and spheres of influence.'
  • How the news about Mikhail Gorbachev's death will get the Cold War wrong

    How the news about Mikhail Gorbachev's death will get the Cold War wrong

    In retrospect, the most surprising people of the 1980s were President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the Soviet Union. Gorbachev died on Tuesday at the age of 91. His death is the last link to the Cold War's peaceful end, which was nothing short of miraculous.
  • How America's Cold War Victory Was Wasted by Triumphalism

    How America's Cold War Victory Was Wasted by Triumphalism

    In the eyes of American officials, America symbolizes all of humanity, and whatever it does is thus moral and correct.
  • China has already declared Cold War on U.S.

    China has already declared Cold War on U.S.

    To know what the Chinese are really up to, read the futuristic novels of Liu Cixin. “We are in the foothills of a Cold War.” Those were the words of Henry Kissinger when I interviewed him at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Beijing last November.  The observation in itself was not wholly startling. It had …
  • Scorpions singer says iconic ballad ‘Wind of Change’ was not written by CIA

    Scorpions singer says iconic ballad ‘Wind of Change’ was not written by CIA

    The lead singer of Scorpions has dismissed rumors that the band’s 1990 power ballad “Wind of Change” was written by the CIA as a piece of Cold War propaganda. Klaus Meine appeared on SiriusXM’s “Trunk Nation” where he explained that a reporter contacted him for a podcast investigating the mystery surrounding the epic anthem. The …