A U.S. diplomat’s warning about the Soviet Union’s grand strategy helped produce the strategy of containment that won the Cold War.

George Kennan, the great statesman and visionary, whose 100th birthday Princeton celebrates this week, was a miserable outcast as an undergraduate. His experience is worth remembering, especially two ...

With Nazism defeated, the bond between the US and Europe was solidified to defend freedom and cooperation. Today, Trump's disruption has put it under threat. In February 1946, for the Minister ...

George F. Kennan, '25 died on Thursday. He was a great Princetonian, a great American, a great world citizen. He was a true statesman. He was a writer of rare power and precision. How many telegrams ...

Discussed in this essay: The Kennan Diaries, by George F. Kennan, edited by Frank Costigliola. W. W. Norton. 688 pages. $39.95. Pity the man’s poor wife. To peruse this generous selection from… ...