… you do mean Sam Huntington from HARVARD, right? Also, he is a political scientist, not a “political philosopher.”

BTW Huntington did his best work in the 1960s, not the 1990s; The Clash can not be used to predict intra-American conflict, or the split between “old” Europe and the US for that matter, any better than it can explain why the most populous Muslim country in the world, Indonesia, is a (nominal) US friend. This book, and the FA article which preceded, it are rightly ridiculed by academics of ALL political strips. Only pop-politcos, who know no better, sink to citing it… perhaps Mr. Kimball might do well to re-think this particular font of knowledge.