Famously, it kept Americans, Germans down, and Russians out.. By imposing massive cost on any potential, By tying Western Europe to the Anglo- American alliance, keeping Germany in NATO, and Russian adventurism, it created huge disincentives for any Great Power conflict. ..…

That great American, the western, ends with the hero riding off into the sunset. ..…

Arendt tells how, through the first half of the 20th century, political plague-mongers encouraged superfluous men to see themselves not as “little men,” as “forgotten Americans,” or as “losers” (to use the recent label), but as “supermen” upon whose shoulders the fate of..…