the past is past
There has been a lot of loose talk lately about how conflicts with Russia and China are rebooting the Cold War. That’s dumb—and dangerous—thinking.
Benjamin Cunningham is the author of The Liar: How a Double Agent in the CIA Became the Cold War’s Last Honest Man. He is a former correspondent for The Economist, editor in chief of the Prague Post, and copy boy at the Saginaw News. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Barcelona.