Biting More Than Can Be Chewed: How the US State Became a Prisoner of Its Own Rhetoric about Evil

As a result, they asked far more from government than any state could ever provide: specifically the abolition of evil in the world, a task that, if possible at all, is best left to religion. At a time when the state can be almost nothing in domestic life, it chose to try to do everything in its national security policy. Professor Wolfe will try to explain how US policy makers became seduced by the language of evil when they should have focussed more on the nature of politics.