We Americans look at the last 300 years of history, and we basically see a world that's getting better and better. The rule of freedom expands. The e…

- Walter Russell Mead

It is a kind of ego booster, the way Egypt's winning the 1973 war, in the first stages, was an uplift. But I did not find when I spoke to people that…

- Walter Russell Mead

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being fulfille…

- Walter Russell Mead

This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for…

- Walter Russell Mead

Unlike some, I don't claim to hold the mystic key to the future. But judging from past events, it seems to me that those who want to prophesy the imm…

- Walter Russell Mead

The historian assesses that the investment of the wealthy classes in the Bank of England wedded them to the fate of the nation as a whole and to the …

- Walter Russell Mead

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since a…

- Walter Russell Mead

What begins in arrogance often ends in shame.

- Walter Russell Mead

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly…

- Walter Russell Mead