Gee’s Reviews > False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism > Status Update

America’s business and political classes are proceeding on the premise that they can project American values to the last corner of the earth – without incurring the casualties, or the expense, that usually go with empires. It is a curious presumption, which makes sense only if America’s elites imagine that the United States has somehow exempted itself from the burdens that every imperial power throughout history has

A more cogent objection to universalism is that it is incompatible with the mentality that is needed to sustain an imperial role in the world