Twilight’s last gleaming: Can Americans learn to accept the notion of post-exceptionalism?
Among the fundamental conceits of the exceptionalist creed is that America is above the laws that govern all other nations. A leap of faith is required to end this fallacy, argues Patrick Lawrence At four-thirty in the afternoon on Saturday, 4 April 2009,…
We brought this on ourselves, and we are the terrorists, too
There is no more ducking the point: It’s not terror only when it happens to us. Our “shock and awe” is terror, too Within an hour or two of the bombings in Brussels Monday, it was plain that there were…
As reckless as George W. Bush: Hillary Clinton helped create disorder in Iraq, Libya, Syria — and, scarier, doesn’t seem to understand how
American primacy at all cost. That’s her dangerous guiding mission. Only Bush, Nixon loved imperial adventure more As of the voting in various primaries last week and this week, Hillary Rodham Clinton has the surest way to the White House…
Bernie Sanders and David Brooks, both wrong: This year of Fox News and Donald Trump-fueled rage can’t be fixed by any candidate
We are angry. We are afraid. We are exceptional. And the problem with America is that very combination Everything was going smoothly these holidays just past. Then, on the last day of the year, David Ignatius published an opinion piece in the…
Our glorious Thanksgiving unraveling: Race, protest, patriotism — and the forming, finally, of a true American spirit
Trump leads the GOP. Terror fears. Protests on campus. This is a fraught Thanksgiving — and that’s a good sign It is fascinating to watch these student protests arising around the country—the University of Missouri, Yale, Princeton, many others. Students,…
“Putin is the only major leader to utter a few simple truths about the role of the United States in the world today”
Perry Anderson on foreign policy: America’s problem is it’s a global hegemon without global ideology legitimacy Part two of our conversation with Perry Anderson. Find part one here. Fifteen years ago, in the distant universe we now know as pre-September 11,…
How America built its empire: The real history of American foreign policy that the media won’t tell you
Perry Anderson sits down with Salon to discuss the Cold War, Hiroshima, American exceptionalism, Iran and more The other day I wrote Perry Anderson, the subject of the following interview, to ask what he thought of the foreign policy debates,…
Neocons get desperate: The real reason why Iran deal drives the right-wing nuts
The GOP’s screaming because they know American exceptionalism is at risk. That’s a good reason to root for the deal You know very well that we are in for a messy scrap over the accord Secretary of State John Kerry…
America’s immoral exceptionalism: The lie we keep telling ourselves about foreign policy and democracy
Americans are disgusted with all of these wars, but feel powerless to do anything about it The task of historians in our time is to unbury the buried. For journalists, it is to see that the truth of events is…
Rudy Giuliani’s dangerous game: Jeb Bush, patriotic lies, and the truth about American exceptionalism
Our politicians are selling us fictions dressed up as patriotism. We need a new approach — and not another Bush “I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t…
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