
Reopening the World and Ourselves
Dec 4, 2021 Maya Jasanoff surveys the damage wrought by toxic nationalism, and proposes something to replace it.
Maya Jasanoff, Professor of History at Harvard University, is the author, most recently, of The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.
Dec 4, 2021 Maya Jasanoff surveys the damage wrought by toxic nationalism, and proposes something to replace it.
A toxic mix of mutual distrust and rising nationalism – with Taiwan the immediate flash point – has brought Sino-American relations to their lowest point in decades. While neither China nor the United States appears to want a military conflict, we asked PS commentators whether the two powers might nonetheless stumble into one.