The End of the 20th Century

Everything that happened in the world after 1914 in some sense happened because of 1914. The rise of this hyper-nationalism, the collapse of European self-confidence and the collapse of traditional forms of government are just a few examples. And then something else began to come clear in my hand. I remembered how the late great Jean Kirkpatrick used to say that the 20th century really didn't run from 1900 to 1901 to 1999 to 2000. That's a calendrical accident. But the real human drama of that period of that moment in history ran from 1914 to 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union itself a byproduct of the guns of August 1914. No one had the moral authority in