ROBERT KAGAN is Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a contributing columnist for The Washington Post. During the Reagan administration, he served in several positions at the U.S. State Department, including as a speechwriter and on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff. His latest book is Rebellion: How Antiliberalism Is Tearing America Apart—Again.
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