Americans revel in American exceptionalism. However, when one looks at where we actually excel, we should be embarrassed. We do have the most powerful military in the world. But at what cost? When we ...

The summer of 2010 seems like a strange moment to warn of the perils of American hubris. The United States is struggling to create jobs, waging two wars with ...

The missile strikes that inaugurated America's latest attempt at regime change were launched 29 days before the 50th anniversary of another such -- the Bay of Pigs of April 17, 1961. Then, the hubris ...

For him, this version of American hubris can, in large measure, be explained by Wilson and the American progressives’ inability to “meet the world on its own terms, to accept that politics between ...

Pete Wehner has a devastating takedown of an important aspect of Peter Beinart’s new book: In his new book, The Icarus Syndrome: A History of American Hubris, Peter Beinart, formerly editor of the New ...

The story mocks a cliche: As they were leaving the Garden of Eden, Adam said to Eve, "Darling, we live in an age of transition." The first sentence of Barack Obama's letter introducing his new ...