"U.S. war against liberals goes global" Electronic Media by Abbott Gleason The Watson Institute thanks the Providence Journal Bulletin for permission to reprint this article on our website. THE UNITED STATES is almost certainly at a turning point in its history. The momentous nature of the changes in our political and economic life make the present moment superficially comparable to 1946-48, when the Cold War was launched. But the changes seem deeper and more far-reaching than that, if only because American global power dominates in a way quite different from the way it did at the end of World War...