70 Year Magazine Archive

The Wrong Stuff

by Midge Decter

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U.S. vs. Them: How a Half-Century of Conservatism Has Undermined America’s Security, by J. Peter Scoblic (Viking, 368 pp., $25.95)

THE 20th century was a time of many dire misapprehensions of reality-“The War to End Wars” and “Peace in Our Time” being only two of the most murderously consequential. There are always those who simply will not forsake their determination to cling to one or another comforting false idea of reality.

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