Epstein Secrets

n foreign policy world, made another key error in the Middle East: It fundamentally misread the nature of the political upheaval in Egypt. Just as Thomas Jefferson mistook the French Revolution for a liberal democratic movement like the American Revolution, so Washington thought that what was happening in Egy

the political upheaval in Egypt. Just as Thomas Jefferson mistook the French Revolution for a liberal demo

anti-Semitic charges that Israel was behind the overthrow of Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi. Compared with Mr. Morsi, however, Mr. Erdogan is a Bismarck of effective governance and smart policy. Mr. Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood were quite simply not ready for prime time; they failed to understan

to be that history was made in public: Big visible wars and social shifts and revolutions. Pericles in the Athenian square; the churning protests of Jefferson’s Paris or the massing of armies. Now, however, subtle manipulations of technology, invisible to most of us and maybe even accidental, maybe weird, w

t-a-tat-tat of a Maxim gun. Crown Prince Wilhelm, the Kaiser's eldest son, wrote that defensive thinking was, “utterly foreign to the German spirit.” Bismarck’s “Iron and Blood” national motto became, finally, personal for many Germans, who were prouder to leave their universities with a hot-red dueling sca

men and later the technocrats of various empires, the men who helped birth and then manage the problems of an Enlightened, urban social order: Locke, Bismarck, Disraeli. And by soldiers he had in mind both the great aristocratic warrior classes of Europe and upstart, genius figures like Napoleon or Wellingt

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