Jonathan Schnell is writing a new series of essays for
The Nation that go along with his new book,
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People. His point seems to me to be that the very power that makes America strong, paralizes it, or causes us to be omnipotently impotent, as he puts it. And that America’s attempt at imperialism in this post-imperialistic age is doomed to failure. This really is an illuminating essay tracing America’s struggle with power from McCarthyism to Nixon to President Bush. Follow the link to read
Too Late For Empire:
For all its wealth, its power, its dreams of military domination over the last half-century-plus, the United States, Schell argues in this introduction to his new series, has misunderstood the nature of power in our time and so has become “the fool of history.” Our tale, as he tells it, is not one of imperial success followed by crisis, but of a deep and abiding kind of failure; nor is it a tale of a successful empire now in crisis, but of a failed empire now in a state of disarray.
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