The neoconservative commentator, Robert Kagan, cofounder in 1997 of the Project for a New American Century, and after that institution crashed amid the ruins of Iraq, founder of its 2009 successor, the Foreign Policy Initiative, is continuing his crusade for a new Reaganism — which he construes as American world domination.

Now it is with a new book, "The World America Made," summarized in a long article in the May 26 issue of The New Republic, and received in that city with apparent enthusiasm.

His purpose has always been to put Reaganite foreign policy back on its feet — or what he and other conservatives (neo or otherwise) think Reaganist foreign policy really was, the "defeat" of Soviet communism, achieved through "moral clarity" and outspending the Soviet Union in arms.