God and Gold
by Walter Russell Mead
On the one hand, the book is a history book. It explains that America did not come on the scene out of nothing. We inherited the liberal, capitalist, international maritime order that the British created… Mead’s conclusion is that for all of America’s errors and excesses, no country has done more to promote liberty, democracy and prosperity of human beings around the world than the United States. The United States is absolutely essential to most of the things that we prize.
