Unlimited guilt, hubris, arrogance — and The Tragic Mind

Robert Kaplan is renowned for his keen insight in covering foreign wars and the politics associated with them. Unusually for a journalist, he has had the ear of past American administrations. Such is his reputation and credibility. How strange then, that his latest book, The Tragic Mind, is entirely about ancient Greek versus Shakespearean plays and characters. It takes a while to even get used to the idea that journalist Robert Kaplan is using fictional characters to explain the harsh realities of the world. Wars are no longer sufficient then?