In our last look at Doonesbury during the Carter years, we saw how Jimmy Carter’s fondness for political symbolism – initiatives like a “human rights award banquet” meant to bolster a new, rights-driven approach to foreign policy – played into Garry Trudeau’s takedown of the American political and cultural Establishment’s hypocritical support of the Shah … Continue reading “Picking through the Rubble of Three Generations of U.S. Foreign Policy”: Carter’s “New Foundation” and Garry Trudeau’s Nonordinary Realities