The Fall of the West How They Really Lost It

Politics at the turn of the millennium was a story of temporary dispensations mistaken for eternal truths: the definitive triumph of free market ideology; US military supremacy; a rules-based global order. As Jones recounts, these certainties would come crashing down over the next quarter of a century amid a succession of economic failures, foreign policy disasters and political crises... it is bracing to see what was once the news cycle take its place in the sweep of history, and Jones's focus on free-market fundamentalism provides a compelling through-line. He suggests the second Trump administration, in all its cynical venality, is "the logical endpoint" of that philosophy Houman Barekat Guardian