Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"
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The Disdain of the American Elite for Realism
In his new book, Peter Bergen says U.S. elites are unique in their disdain for realism and realess. Realism today is thought of as neo-isolationism; it's really a form of liberal internationalism. To believe that the power of the United States can always right the world is a violation of tragic sense of sensibility - Bergen.
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