“In Washington...the appearance of power is therefore almost as important as the reality of it. In fact, the appearance is frequently its essential reality”
― The White House Years
― The White House Years
“It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.”
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“In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by human insight or by conflicts and catastrophes of a magnitude that left humanity no other choice. We are at such a juncture.”
― On China
― On China
Yi’s 2024 Year in Books
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