The debate about America’s decline is as old as the country itself. George Washington, John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson were all afraid that if the new republic entered ‘entangling alliances’ – in the words of Jefferson – or went ‘abroad in search of monsters to destroy...
28 December 2010
The debate about America’s decline is as old as the country itself. George Washington, John Quincy Adams and Thomas Jefferson were all afraid that if the new republic entered ‘entangling alliances’ – in the words of Jefferson – or went ‘abroad in search of monsters to destroy’ – to quote Adams, it would lose its identity and its exemplary character. At several junctures...