http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/5972/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/self-deluding-universalism-american-imperium <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> The magazine&#039;s top story this week: A ponderous left-wing essay that wouldn&#039;t have been out of place at The Nation (the key giveaway is the use of the word &quot;hegemony&quot; without irony). </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/clay-waters">Clay Waters</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>The Times devoted its Sunday Magazine cover story to essayist Parag Khanna, who over the course of 7,000 words presided serenely over America's decline in his ponderous essay "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27world-t.html?sq=" target=_self ? parag%20khanna&st='nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=all"'>Waving </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/magazine/27world-t.html?sq=" ? parag%20khanna&st='nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=all"'>Goodbye to Hegemony</a>," which reads ashalf info-dump and halfgraduate school essay from someone not as clever as he thinks.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/self-deluding-universalism-american-imperium" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles TimesWatch Hegemony Magazine NewAmericaFoundation NewYorkTimes NYTimes ParagKhanna TimesWatch TimesWatch.org UnitedState Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:27:00 +0000 admin 5968 at http://archive2.mrc.org