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War on the Rocks
February 15, 2018
American scholars from Hal Brands and Niall Ferguson to Francis Gavin, Margaret Macmillan and Philip Zelikow have discussed the merits of “applied history,” “historical sensibility,” and “thinking historically.” Building on the work of earlier historians such as Ernest May and Richard Neustadt, they haveÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 13, 2018
This theory was produced by mythologist Philip Zelikow, who, before the investigation began, created an outline that was kept secret from his own Commission staff. Zelikow's outline determined the outcome of the investigation before any facts were examined. Moreover, the 9/11 Commission claimedÃâà...
New York Times
February 10, 2018
“They are very frustrated with what they're getting from our educational institutions,” said Philip Zelikow, a University of Virginia professor who collaborated with corporate leaders like Howard Schultz of Starbucks on a 2015 report titled “America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age.
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 26, 2017
In a piece for the Wall Street Journal published Monday, Walter Russell Mead makes a truly terrible argument in defense of the Trump administration's new National Security Strategy. Mead's case is based on an astonishingly inept historical analogy. He argues that the new U.S. strategy has embraced “anÃâà...
The Boston Globe
August 28, 2017
US forces and Afghan security police in Asad Khil near the site of a US bombing east of Kabul, Afghanistan. By Niall Ferguson August 28, 2017. “Is the world slouching toward a grave systemic crisis?” asked historian Philip Zelikow at the annual gathering of the Aspen Strategy Group earlier this month. Now that's what I callÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
August 15, 2017
The Charlottesville tragedy came close to home for me because I teach at the University of Virginia and because it signaled the reappearance of a threat I had encountered before: the rise of well-armed private militia groups. For those close to the action, including the law enforcement personnel on duty,Ãâà...
The Atlantic
August 11, 2017
On August 5, Philip Zelikow delivered the following keynote address at the annual meeting of the Aspen Strategy Group, a discussion forum for experts and government practitioners. Zelikow, who is currently the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, has served at all levels ofÃâà...
The New Yorker
August 5, 2017
“Yet the most disruptive force in the world today is the United States of America,” the former C.I.A. director said. The closest similarity to the Trump era was the brief Warren G. Harding Administration, in the nineteen-twenties, Philip Zelikow, who worked for the Reagan and two Bush Administrations, and whoÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
July 31, 2017
Professor Philip Zelikow concludes that President Donald Trump has no constitutional authority to decide whether the military will “accept or allow” transgender individuals to serve. But the president does have that power, just as he has the power to continue the current Department of Defense policyÃâà...
