What was life like before the presidency of Donald Trump? And when, or if, his misrule ends, what should the United States and its allies aspire to build? One answer — simple and powerful — is to restore what has been lost during the Trump administration. Recent, wrenching events in international life have prompted anxious commentators to worry about the demise of what they recall as a “liberal international order,” or a “rules-based international order,” under the United States’ aegis. The resurgence of great-power rivalry, increasing economic protectionism, and war and repression in the Middle East, and now a pandemic, … Continue reading Wrestling with Fog: On the Elusiveness of Liberal Order