The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World

World Order is Not Immune to Entropy

“The liberal world order is fragile and impermanent. Like a garden, it is ever under siege from the natural forces of history, the jungle whose vines and weeds constantly threaten to overwhelm it...Unfortunately, we tend to take our world for granted. We have lived so long inside the bubble of the liberal order that we can imagine no other kind of world. We think it is natural and normal, even inevitable.”

An excellent exploration of internationalist American foreign policy–and why continued diplomacy, trade, and yes, even occasional military engagement is necessary to uphold and preserve the rights of all democracies and their people.