Christopher Caldwell

Obama knows that America has lost its appetite for war

The age of 'maximalist' foreign policy may be drawing to an end

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Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell is a contributing editor of the Claremont Review of Books and the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.

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