I read Nicholas Lemann's article, u201CThe Next World Order,u201D in the Easter weekend issue of the New Yorker when it arrived and then again on LRC, where it was posted yesterday. Lemann, is the magazine's Washington correspondent. His article has a somewhat more tentative subhead: u201CThe Bush Administration may have a brand new doctrine of power.u201D Ah, so. What caught my eye more than anything else in the piece was Lemann's rendering of an interview with Ken Pollack, who was, he said, the National Security Council's staff expert on Iraq during the last years of the Clinton Administration. Today an … Continue reading A Mad Dream of Power