Pompeo’s nostalgic, fraudulent promotion of “the West.” Andrew Bacevich counters Mike Pompeo’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and calls for reviving “the West” with “a radical redefinition of its collective purpose and of America’s own role.”

The road to hell. Samuel Moyn reviews Samantha Power’s The Education of an Idealist.

Trump’s Venezuela strategy is a total failure. Daniel DePetris describes the failure of the Trump administration’s regime change policy.