Revisionism and Realism: Perry Anderson and the Wisconsin School As the closing post in this roundtable on US foreign policy and the Left, I would like to look more closely at the terms of Perry Anderson’s intellectual debt to what we have all, I think, agreed was his major intellectual resource while writing the New Left Review essays “Imperium” and “Consilium”—the so-called Wisconsin School, the multi-generational network of dissenting scholarship on US foreign policy whose central figure was William Appleman Williams. And, in doing so, I would like to hazard a couple of speculative points about the value that the Read more