While it is always tempting to assume that professional punditry is wrong—and the coronavirus panic has only increased the level of hysteria in the chattering classes—the idea that the world may be changing in fundamental ways has taken root. Henry Kissinger, the Yoda of international political wisdom, has pronounced it so: “The reality is,” wrote the former secretary of state, that “the world will never be the same after the coronavirus.”But what does this really mean? This warning is vintage Kissinger: oracular but opaque, typically Delphic. Put more simply, what ought to change about the post-COVID world is that …read more
Source:: The American Interest
