In The Icarus Syndrome, Peter Beinart examines three examples from the past century where America overestimated its power- World War I, Vietnam, and Iraq. In each case, a new generation came about ...

Hubris, according to Wikipedia, describes a personality quality of excessive pride or dangerous overconfidence, often synonymous with arrogance and associated with pretension. Hubris often indicates a ...

In golden Greece the Periclean playgoer knew by heart the Pride & Fall theme of classic tragedy. Hubris (νβÏis) was the offense of the honest but haughty mortal who thumbed his nose at the gods and ...