Max Eden
Max Eden
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Hegemony upheld
The decline and rise of the American 'empire'
In the 1990s, historian Francis Fukuyama declared “the end of history.” Apparently, no one got the memo. Chalk it up to the Internet, the mainstream media, overeager political commentators or all of the above, but this decade has suffered from too much “instant history.” It has been widely written by pundits on both sides that this was the decade of American decline, the decade of transition between Bill Kristol’s “New American Century” and Fareed Zakaria’s “Post-American World.” Rumors of our decline, however, have been greatly exaggerated.
ESSAY | Eden: A post-modern Muhammad and me
"You’ll like Muhammad,” my father told me, smiling a bit devilishly. “He’s a very smart and snarky kid.” Five minutes before I was to meet the 20-year-old son of a prominent Emirati sheikh, I had no idea what to expect, and that’s what my dad intended.