Brooke Gladstone
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first heard Jun 2026
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In January, I spoke to Garrett M. Graff, journalist, historian, and author of a piece in Wired titled, We Are Witnessing the Self-Immolation of an Empire.
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Right, you call them the six pillars, just go through them all.
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Okay, now let's go to the second pillar, rich and steady government support of higher education, medical research, and laboratories.
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And the third pillar?
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The fourth one is an unyielding and unquestionable adherence to the rule of law at home.
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Likewise, this would be the fifth pillar, a firm, unyielding, and unquestionable network of geopolitical alliances that knit a security blanket across the entire globe.
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You have a sixth pillar.
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Has this happened before in American history?
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Can we stipulate, though, that this rules-based order, as we call it, hasn't worked for everybody, and America has played fast and loose with its tenets over and over again?
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This is something that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney emphasized in his speech, that there were a lot of things where participants in the rules-based order just pretended not to see.
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The end of the Cold War weakened American power because nations didn't have to compromise their individual interests as much to get under America's security umbrella.
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I mean, we know that America did some awful things.
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Maybe we had a coming.
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Trump is not entirely without friends.
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He inaugurated his board of peace.
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He is the head of it for life.
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The countries that have joined had to, I guess, kick in a billion dollars as a kind of membership fee.
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Among the countries are Belarus, Israel, Pakistan, Turkey.
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Not to mention the Kennedy Center.
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Which brings us inevitably to the question, can this be undone?
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