The End of the American Century
The country’s role as a global model and guarantor of freedom and rule of law is being brought to an end by Trump.
In 1941, a year before America entered World War II, Henry Luce, the founder and publisher of , wrote an essay called “The American Century.” It was an argument not just against isolationism but for America as a global moral beacon. Luce, the son of American missionaries to China, wrote that America must “accept wholeheartedly our duty and our opportunity as the most powerful and vital nation in the world and in consequence exert upon
