By Nicholas Vardy Conventional wisdom is that the U.S. empire is on the skids, but is that really the case? Americans are always focused on some foreign adversary – real or imagined.
Today, Nicholas Vardy examines America’s unique history of self-deprecation and what’s really happening in the U.S.
Conventional wisdom is that the U.S. empire is on the skids.
America’s best days are behind it.
Even President Donald Trump’s election slogan – “Make America Great Again” – embodies this nostalgia for better days gone by.
German journalist Josef Joffe calls this sentiment “declinism.” And it’s nothing new.
Whether it was the Soviet’s launch of the Sputnik satellite in the …read more
