The Shining City on the Hill

Contemplating the Myths of a New Dark Age

The ruins of a shining city on a hill, with a tattered American flag flying at half mast

The American bureaucratic class continues honking toward oblivion in clown cars while we wait for the (literal) bomb to drop. Our 2024 foreign service officials rattle sabers like they’re backed by the 1964 military-industrial complex. If ideas had a graveyard, DC w…