"Andrew Bacevich is among our most important public intellectuals in politics, foreign policy, international relations, and security. He writes regularly for The Wilson Quarterly, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Nation, and The New Republic. His op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, and Los Angeles Times. This book is a curated edition of his numerous writings on American politics and war after 9/11. This volume will reflect the entirety of the American experience post-9/11, politically, culturally, and spiritually"--;Introduction : straying from the well-trod path -- Part 1. Poseurs and prophets. A letter to Paul Wolfowitz : occasioned by the tenth anniversary of the Iraq War (2013) -- David Brooks : angst in the church of America the redeemer (2017) -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. and the decline of American liberalism (2017) -- George Kennan : Kennan kvetches (2014) -- Tom Clancy : military man (2014) -- Robert Kagan : the duplicity of the ideologues (2014) -- Boykinism : Joe McCarthy would understand (2012) -- Henry Luce : the elusive American century (2012) -- Donald Rumsfeld : known and unknown (2011) -- Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter : tailors to the emperor (2011) -- Fault lines : inside Rumsfeld's Pentagon (2008) -- Tommy Franks : a modern major general (2004) -- Selling our souls : of idolatry and iPhones (2011) -- Christopher Lasch : family man (2010) -- Randolph Bourne : the man in the black cape (2009) -- William Appleman Williams : tragedy renewed (2009) -- Reinhold Niebuhr : illusions of managing history (2007) -- Part 2. History and myth. Saving "America first" (2017) -- Kissing the specious present goodbye (2017) -- The age of great expectations (2017) -- American imperium (2016) -- History that makes us stupid (2015) -- Always and everywhere (2013) -- The ugly American telegram (2013) -- The revisionist imperative (2012) -- The end of (military) history? (2010) -- Twilight of the republic? (2006) -- What happened at Bud Dajo (2006) -- The folly of Albion (2005) -- The real World War IV (2005) -- Part 3. War and empire. Save us from Washington's visionaries (2015) -- A war of ambition (2014) -- Naming our nameless war (2013) -- How we became Israel (2012) -- Breaking Washington's rules (2011) -- Why read Clausewitz when shock and awe can make a clean sweep of things? (2006) -- Living room war (2005) -- Bush's grand strategy (2002) -- New Rome, new Jerusalem (2002) -- Permanent war for permanent peace (2001) -- Part 4. Politics and culture. Slouching toward Mar-a-Lago (2017) -- Not the "age of Trump" (2017) -- The failure of American liberalism (2016) -- An ode to Ike and Adlai (2016) -- War and culture, American style (2016) -- Under God (2015) -- Thoughts on a graduation weekend (2014) -- One percent republic (2013) -- Counterculture conservatism (2013) -- Ballpark liturgy (2011) -- The great divide (2008).