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Governmental redistributionist and interventionist policies have been accumulating for two centuries. The seizure of income, the stifling of entrepreneurship and increased regulation of commerce has proceeded almost unremittingly. Ironically, this took place during a period in which mankind has enjoyed an unprecedented upsurge in prosperity.

Alan Moran reviews Mark Steyn's After America: Get Ready for Armageddon

"Imperial overreach" is sometimes used to describe a United States that is less and less able to maintain its global dominance. The phrase reflects upon the fall of ancient Rome and the demise of the British Empire.

War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading. - Thomas Hardy, The Dynasts Reprising Hegel's view that the Battle of Jena in 1806 represented the "end of history", Francis Fukuyama described the 1989 fall of communism in similar terms. Fukuyama was heavily criticised at the time and so, no doubt, was Hegel, but both dates saw dramatic changes in politics and international relations.

There has been one constant in the defining struggle in politics over the past two centuries. That struggle has been between those who want more of their country's resources and incomes to be "fairly" shared on some politically determined basis, and those who want the incomes and resources to be retained by the people who earn and own them, allowing those people to consume their income and wealth with minimal restraint on the direction of such consumption.