The Worldmaker: Paul Wolfowitz 1. On Pipes in particular and Sovietology in general, see Engerman, Know Your Enemy. 2. Immerman, Empire for Liberty, 203. 3. Paul H. Nitze to Zbigniew Brzezinski, March 26, 1976, Papers of Paul H. Nitze, box 70. 4. Anne Hessing Cahn, Killing Detente, 158. 5. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 74. 6. See Rovner, Fixing the Facts, chap. 6. 7. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, 75–76. 8. Immerman, Empire for Liberty, 202. 9. Packer, The Assassins’ Gate, 25; Immerman, Empire for Liberty, 198–99. 10. Solomon, Paul D. Wolfowitz, 10. 11. Bloom’s best-known work, The Closing of the American Mind, offers an impassioned defense of the teaching of philosophy through a “canon” and denigrates the woolly, relativist direction of U.S. higher education. 12. Anne Norton notes that “other students regarded the [Telluride] circle as a Straussian cult,”
