Do Republicans Need A Reality Check On The Senate? "Reclaiming Liberal Education" & More | Peter Berkowitz
(16:24) Hoover Institution fellow Peter Berkowitz discusses his recent book Reclaiming Liberal Education in America.
September 28, 2026
Published March 20, 2026
Viewed across five decades, the structure of global power has changed less than commonly assumed. Maritime democracies continue to confront large, land-based authoritarian powers, while the United States retains a dominant share of global wealth, military capacity, innovation, and cultural influence. What has changed is scale: global interconnection, dual-use technology, and the diffusion of economic success have made power harder to control and easier to exploit. The result is not decline, but a world destabilized by the unintended consequences of victory.
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