Eh, it doesn’t really matter in the end—or so argues Shadi Hamid in his new book The Case for American Power. Instances of poor judgment are merely that, and do not compromise the sanctity or superiority of the American project. Oliver Eagleton reviews this delusional defense of U.S. hegemony. But what is there worth defending, exactly? Earlier this week, Trump pardoned Juan Orlando Hernández, who was at the center of what the authorities have characterized as “one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world.” Last year, Jared Olson reported on the trial of the former Honduran president. Eamon Whalen, meanwhile, writes on the white nationalist troll pulling an embittered Republican Party even further to the right.
