Grady Nixon & Walter Russell Mead

Grady Nixon is a research associate at the Center for the Future of Liberal Society at the Hudson Institute.

Walter Russell Mead is a distinguished fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at Hudson Institute, the Global View Columnist at The Wall Street Journal and professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York.

America’s leadership: failing its way to success

Grady Nixon & Walter Russell Mead Jun 11, 2020

There are two epidemics raging across the United States today: the coronavirus and a febrile sense of national failure. Just like the so-called Flagellants, who roamed across Europe during the Black Death – beating themselves with scourges…