James Parisot (Temple): The Two Hundred and Fifty Year Transition: How the American Empire Became Capitalist. Sean Starrs (CUHK): The Rise of Emerging Markets Signifies the End of the Beginning of the American Century: Henry Luce and the Emergence of Global Capitalism. Paul Krugman on the fall of the American empire. Liberalism and empire: Nathan Robinson on a history lesson for Paul Krugman. Is America choosing decline? The numbers are complicated — but actively undermining the postwar order isn’t helping. Why we’re underestimating American collapse: Umair Haque on the strange new pathologies of the world’s first rich failed state. What do you call a world that can’t learn from itself: Why don’t Americans understand how poor their lives are?
Daniel Drezner reviews Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America’s Fifty-Year Fall — and Those Fighting to Reverse It by Steven Brill (and more). How the baby boomers — not millennials — screwed America: Sean Illing interviews Bruce Gibney, author of A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America. Stop blaming Boomers: It’s the Greatest Generation that ruined America. Rich Cohen on why Generation X might be our last, best hope.
Jesse Kelly: “America is over, but I won’t see it go without an epic fight”. Jonathan Kirshner on surviving the emerging dark age: Towards a new counterculture. The reinvention of America: Americans don’t realize how fast the country is moving toward becoming a better version of itself.
