WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE WORTHLESS PRESIDENTS THEY SERVED...:

Scholars on the Sidelines (Joseph S. Nye Jr., April 13, 2009, Washington Post)

President Obama has appointed some distinguished academic economists and lawyers to his administration, but few high-ranking political scientists have been named. In fact, the editors of a recent poll of more than 2,700 international relations experts declared that "the walls surrounding the ivory tower have never seemed so high."

While important American scholars such as Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brzezinski took high-level foreign policy positions in the past...

...were any two men more responsible for reaching the nadir of the Cold War, the point at which folks thought it losable?

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 14, 2009 8:02 PM