Farewell to American Empire
" America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between " -- Oscar Wilde A specter is haunting the United States -the specter of decline . In one of the public debates , the winning presidential elections candidate made his slogan " Make America Great Again ", which implied America was no longer great, as it once had been. The 2008 crisis and the government's response made obvious the extent of economic and political inequality in the United States, and the absolute decline in wealth and well being for a growing fraction of Americans. Evidence of decline is manifest to those of us living in America in the first decades of the 21st century. Student achievement at the primary, secondary and university levels has fallen from the top ranks. US students, who attend ever more decrepit schools, are performing lower than their peers in countries with much lower levels of income or education spending . . The US, which pionee...