676. Has America Lost the Plot?

Another war in the Middle East. A retreat from the international order. A presidency built on self-dealing and arbitrary power. It’s enough to make you think the U.S. is in a steep decline — but Fareed Zakaria thinks otherwise.
 

• SOURCES:
  • Fareed Zakaria, journalist and author.

• RESOURCES:
  • "Iran is an imperial trap. America walked right in." by Fareed Zakaria (The Washington Post, 2026).
  • "‘Bomb and hope’ is not a strategy," by Fareed Zakaria (The Washington Post, 2026).
  • Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present, by Fareed Zakaria (2024).
  • The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder, by Peter Zeihan (2014).
  • The Affluent Society, by Jonathan Galbraith (1958).

• EXTRAS: 
  • "Fareed Zakaria on What Just Happened, and What Comes Next," by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
  • "Are We Living Through the Most Revolutionary Period in History?" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
  • "The Folly of Prediction," by Freakonomics Radio (2011).

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