Walking around San Francisco, I saw this ad somewhere in its increasingly sprawling downtown streets. American capitalism, à la Spotify, will market anything. . .
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Credit McDonald’s and its local boosterism for this one: if one peers closely at the port window, you’ll see Hoover standing, dignified, between two other personages. As anyone who visits West Branch and the Hoover presidential library knows, McDonald’s is one of its few reliable dining options. . . .
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Fifteen years ago, Bruce Cumings, a leading historian on U.S.-Korea relations, told me we wouldn’t see an end to the U.S.-North Korea nuclear crisis any time soon—he estimated no less than ten years. Young and naïve, I was shocked at the timeline. In 2003, post-9/11 “Axis of Evil” alarums made the U.S.-North Korea nuclear issue much more urgent than it is today. . . .
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