At history's hinge: the swinging gates of American and global politics
About the author -- Introduction and acknowledgements -- BC: before covid-19. Strategic landscapes. The net effect -- A phenomenology of disinformation -- Huntington's errors of endism at thirty -- The beauty and necessity of humility -- Policy snapshots. Immigration I: the elite blind spot -- Immigration ii: skills-based immigration: good idea, bad reasons, worse context -- Immigration iii: there's no place like home -- Impeachment I: impeachable offenses are not necessarily crimes -- Impeachment ii: sifting through the wreckage -- Middle east I: Pompeo and the settlements: it's the politics, stupid -- Middle east ii: what to do about Idlib -- Bolton out, OBrien in: will it matter? -- The real problem with the trump foreign policy -- DC: during covid-19. Strategic landscapes. Here comes trouble -- At history's hinge: how not to waste a crisis -- Inequality, ideology, and American reordering -- Come the whirlwind?: a bad-case planning scenario -- The present madness? -- Policy snapshots. Covid-19 and the regime-type fallacy -- Big is not better, small is not better: better is better -- This means war! -- Dystopia vs dystopia: the Sino-American rivalry in cultural context -- The Biden predicament: not easy going forward.