Shattered Hegemons

In a few weeks the United States will be celebrating its 250th birthday. By any standards, its existence has been nothing short of remarkable. What was a quarter of a millennium ago a backwards, agrarian state conducting a novel experiment with a limited form of democracy matured into a planet-bestriding juggernaut that has dominated global affairs for the guts of the past century. An American century. Yet if history teaches us one thing it is in the impermanence of power, ... Read more...