American power worldwide is at its historic zenith.

Americans must place greater emphasis on the more subtle dimensions of national power, such as innovation, education, the balance of force and diplomacy, and the quality of political leadership.

Americans don't learn about the world; they don't study world history, other than American history in a very one-sided fashion, and they don't study geography.

All the historical pretenders to global power originated in Eurasia.

It is important to ask ourselves, as citizens, whether a world power can provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety.

The costly unilateralism of the younger Bush presidency led to a decade of war in the Middle East and the derailment of American foreign policy at large.