In forming these views, he is assisted by his foreign policy team which includes Zbigniew Brzezinski, Mark Brzezinski, Anthony Lake, Susan Rice and Robert Malley.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The audacity of truth

Messrs Powell and Rumsfeld have lunch together every week with the third member of the Bush foreign policy team, Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser.

ECONOMIST: Working out the world

Podhoretz joins, among others on the foreign-policy team, the conservative Middle East scholar Martin Kramer and Charles Hill, a Hoover fellow and one of the instructors in the Grand Strategy seminar at Yale.

NEWYORKER: Mayberry Man