Israel’s Democracy and the Prophets of Doom The Crooked Timber of Democracy in Israel, Promise Unfulfilled
The story is told of an American journalist who went to Israel for a three-day visit. When asked on the second day what she was writing, she replied, ‘a book with the title: “Israel, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”’ Dahlia Scheindlin is the opposite of that journalist. For 25 years, she has lived and worked in […]
The Rise and Fall of America’s Diplomats
The Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association at 100
by Harry W. Kopp
The Voice of the Foreign Service: A History of the American Foreign Service Association at 100
by Harry W. Kopp
In his short story “Mosby’s Memoirs,” which was based on the life of the conservative scholar and former State Department official Willmoore Kendall, Saul Bellow expressed his disdain for foreign policy mandarins: “…the Foreign Service is staffed by rejects of the power structure. Young gentlemen from good Eastern colleges who couldn’t make it as Wall […]