Intelligentsia: Mr. Wass's Social Studies Blog

The year has been fun
I liked debating the most
I’ll see you around
Summer has begun
Great adventures are waiting
Until school begins

There is a clear docterine on the general contours of US foreign policy. It reigns in Western jouralism and almost all scholarship, even among critics of politics. The major theme is “American exceptioalism”: the thesis that the Ubited States is unlike other great powers, past and present, because it has a “transcedent purpose”: “the establishment [...]