The Thinking Person’s Hawk

The Thinking Person’s Hawk

Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezinski, America’s Great Power Prophet by Edward Luce • Simon & Schuster • 2025 • 560 pages • $35 Zbigniew Brzezinski’s determinedly hawkish views about the Cold War made him, for decades, the bane of liberals, Democrats, and foreign policy doves. When, as President Carter’s national security adviser, he made a brief appearance before the 1980 Democratic National Convention, he was roundly and loudly booed. In Washi…