“Contemporary America isn’t an empire, at least not in any conventional or traditional sense. Your typical empire invades countries to seize their resources, impose political control, and levy taxes. That was true of every empire from the ancient Romans to the Brits and the Soviets.” - Jonah Goldberg, writing for National Review.
Though Goldberg wrote th…
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