Decline Is a Choice

American decline isn’t inevitable, but stopping decline will mean acting to protect the liberal order in ways more forceful than we have become accustomed to.

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Commentary

Is America in decline? Or, as one commentator put it, in “self-doubt”? Recent and not-so-recent news might make citizens of the republic think things are in rough shape, and they wouldn’t necessarily be wrong.