Can Historical Memory Bring Us Peace and Quiet?

... increasing frequency about “American exceptionalism”. This is a dangerous claim, fraught, like both nationalism and chauvinism, with a policy that will eventually lead to the disintegration of societies. And a fragmented world is fertile ground ... ... the seemingly impossible is, in fact, possible if only you put your mind to it. Relations between the United States and the European Union on the one hand and Russia on the other are perhaps at their lowest ebb since the collapse of the Soviet Union....