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What War and Peace has to tell us about our present moment is that no one is really to blame for the decline of the United States as a power: it isn’t illegal immigrants, or Trump, or NAFTA, or Wall Street, or rap music, or our failure to come to grips with slavery, or the repeal of Glass-Steagal, or what have you, but what some would call the will of God and others the inscrutable drift of history: not one factor but innumerable factors, interacting with a complexity we couldn’t start to comprehend, resulting in one’s country’s moving forward and another’s moving back, as has gone on from the beginning of time.

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