Is America Passing the Kahn Test?

Is America Passing the Kahn Test?

When President Ronald Reagan eulogized Herman Kahn in 1983 as “a futurist who welcomed the future,” he captured the essence of conservatism’s most unexpected optimist. This Cold War nuclear strategist, who coolly analyzed scenarios of global conflict, remains an enigma in American intellectual history. His analytical approach to thermonuclear war partly inspired director Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worry…