DeSantis Education Policy: Woke Rollback

Two words and two thinkers roughly captured the divide over strategy during the Cold War: “containment” and “rollback,” and George Kennan and James Burnham.

Kennan, the legendary State Department official whose so-called Long Telegram and subsequent “X” article in Foreign Affairs did so much to catalyze thinking at the outset of the Cold War, is, of course, associated with containment.

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Two words and two thinkers roughly captured the divide over strategy during the Cold War: “containment” and “rollback,” and George Kennan and James Burnham.

Kennan, the legendary State Department official whose so-called Long Telegram and subsequent “X” article in Foreign Affairs did so much to catalyze thinking at the outset of the Cold War, is, of course, associated with containment.