George F. Will
WASHINGTON â In the summer of 1980, Antony Blinken, then 18 and about to matriculate at Harvard, interned for the U.S. senator who brought to Congress the most mental bandwidth since Rep. James Madison.
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., an empiricist in an arena â government â that often is inhospitable to such, said this: The social sciences do not tell us what to do, they tell us the consequences of what we are doing.
It is in that empirical spirit that Secretary of State Blinken surveys a globe that has no time zone without a test for U.S. policy.