What We Are Reading Today: Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell

What We Are Reading Today:  Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell
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Updated 18 October 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell

What We Are Reading Today:  Great Power Diplomacy by A. Wess Mitchell

From the beginning of time, human societies have found themselves confronted by enemies too numerous or ferocious to defeat solely by force of arms.

In these dramatic moments, wise leaders have turned to diplomacy to rearrange the gameboard in their favor and stymie seemingly unstoppable foes. In Great Power Diplomacy, American historian and diplomat A.

Wess Mitchell recounts the forgotten story of how history’s most legendary empires have used diplomacy as a tool of grand strategy to outwit, outmaneuver, and outlast militarily superior opponents.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life’ by Alexandre Lefebvre

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life’ by Alexandre Lefebvre
Updated 03 November 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life’ by Alexandre Lefebvre

What We Are Reading Today: ‘Liberalism as a Way of Life’ by Alexandre Lefebvre

Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was.

Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in “Liberalism as a Way of Life,” many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means.

Misled into thinking that liberalism is confined to politics, we fail to recognize that it’s the water we swim in, saturating every area of public and private life, shaping our psychological and spiritual outlooks, and influencing our moral and aesthetic values—our sense of what is right, wrong, good, bad, funny, worthwhile, and more. 

This eye-opening book shows how so many of us are liberal to the core, why liberalism provides the basis for a good life, and how we can make our lives better and happier by becoming more aware of, and more committed to, the beliefs we already hold.