Is America dying or is it being born again?

In a characteristically timely and insightful essay for The New York Times, Pankaj Mishra has recently mapped out the tortuous passage of the United States from exceptionalism to what he now sees as a turn towards nihilism. He rightly identifies that "extravagant promises by ruling elites, and their unexamined assumptions, are at least partly to blame for this moral breakdown in the world's most powerful country".   Read more.