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I’ll confess I missed the opening ceremony of the Olympics — pretty grand from what I hear — but what I didn’t miss was Harold Meyerson’s excellent meditation on what that ceremony meant for the future of global power. “The summer of ’08, historians will most likely tell us, signaled the rise of a multi-power, non-Western-dominated planet,” Meyerson writes. “It also was the time when it became clear that the American Century would not lap over from the 20th into the 21st.” Read the whole thing.
