“... and calling for $659 million for that programme alone by 1992. To Teller’s distress, Bill Clinton reined in, but by no means halted, the flow of Star Wars money. However, Teller – now in his mid-nineties and retired from the political arena – can glow with contentment at Bush the Younger’s renewed commitment to a scaled-down, but ...”

“... Morozov story. Then, in 1998, came the scandal of Monica Lewinsky’s sexual relationship with Bill Clinton, which came to light as a result of a denunciation by Lewinsky’s co-worker Linda Tripp. This provoked even more strongly divided opinion. Perhaps it was in the national interest to expose the president’s sex life (and his false denials); on ...”

“... would inevitably result in political change coming to China. The ‘butchers of Beijing’, as Bill Clinton described them in 1992, would be swept away by history. The arrival of the internet made this inevitability seem even more inevitable. ‘Liberty will be spread by cell phone and cable modem,’ ...”

“... to offer the Truman administration, and it would have been even less happily received by the Clinton administration. The fall of Communism, as Niebuhr all but prophesied, has permanently deadened the capacity for irony among those who took credit for the triumph. Power, as John Adams wrote in a passage Niebuhr cites, always thinks it has a great soul ...”

“... What happened in the 1994 Congressional elections was much more than the defeat of President Clinton and his post-leftist policies, though that it certainly was. And the election was much more than the defeat of the Democrats as the party of all Americans (with the exception of heterosexual white males and non-feminist white females), though that too it certainly was ...”

“... when he took the lead in pressing for a ground invasion to drive Milosevic out. In the end, Bill Clinton reluctantly agreed to back up Blair’s words with the threat of American military muscle, and Milosevic backed down. But Kosovo is not Iraq (any more than Northern Ireland is the Middle East). And George W. Bush was not ...”

“... compensatory, offering side-payments to the poor that the disciplinary variant withholds, as with Clinton or Blair. Both versions, however, have been unswervingly committed to furthering the common objective of fortifying capital against any untoward shocks.Neoliberalism, as I have said, forms an international regime: that is, not just a system replicated ...”

“... inviting the protocol officer as he did so to ‘come back later’, while winking at me. He was Bill Clinton without the need for hypocrisy; for him, as for all Soviet men of his generation, the West is synonymous with (among other liberations) sexual liberation, and he behaved like Hugh Heffner or Richard Neville. His playboy aspect means he is ...”

“... In the 1990s, threatened by a possible challenge from Mario Cuomo, the governor of New York, Bill Clinton declared that the American people would never elect a president whose surname ended with an ‘o’. In India, the BJP ideologues thought the electorate wouldn’t accept an Italian woman. Many others agreed. Several months ago, on a flight to ...”

“... ago, a former US army general called for a Marshall Plan against Isis. At its fiftieth anniversary Bill Clinton richly called on the ‘spirit of the Marshall Plan’ to renew an ‘undivided Europe’, while Obama repeatedly called for a ‘new Marshall Plan’ to guarantee ‘the common security of the whole world’. Well after the 1980s, when Alan ...”

“... discovered girls relatively late, while at Oxford, but eventually found one who seemed to fit the bill: I was actually a bit more confident on the platform than I was in the sack, and I can remember losing my virginity – a bit later than most of my peers, I suspect – with a girl who, inviting me to tea at one of the then-segregated female ...”

“... and food stamps, and can be banned from federally funded public housing, thanks to laws passed by Bill Clinton, who transformed the Democratic Party into a tough-on-crime party. (One reason Hillary Clinton was so unpopular among ‘woke’ young black voters was her support for such policies – which she belatedly ...”

“... his staff and cabinet appointments (Rahm Emanuel, Timothy Geithner, Lawrence Summers, Hillary Clinton, Robert Gates et al) it was clear that Obama meant to play by the same Washington rules that created the policy disasters he inherited from George W. Bush. Obama had retreated into politics as usual. He never looked back. One did not have to be a ...”

“... with Douglas Ginsburg, and it almost worked with Clarence Thomas: who would be next? President Clinton did not want to find out. He filled two seats during his first two years in office, when Senate Democrats outnumbered Republicans by 56 to 44. But he refused to nominate a liberal version of Bork who would proudly pledge to bring back the Warren ...”

“... only overturned in May 2014. That didn’t stop the South Dakota State Senate from passing a bill in February requiring transgender students to use locker rooms and toilets that correspond to their birth-assigned gender, on the grounds that male-to-female transsexuals sneaking into women’s toilets were a danger to women (similar legislation has been ...”