In Defense of Hegemony

It is hard to recall a time when the world felt as irritated with the conduct of American foreign policy as it does now. You have to think back — way back, all the way back to the days of Madeleine Albright. Remember her? By the time Albright left her job as Secretary of State early this year, she had amassed a lifetime's supply of foreign resentment. Her charm was more often perceived as abrasive, her diplomacy tone-deaf. Officials from Paris to Pyongyang recoiled from her exhortations that they embrace American values and pay fealty to the U.S. as the world's...

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