Why American culture still rules the world — and always will

The chorus has become deafening.Op-ed pages and policy journals are saturated with self-appointed sages warning us that American soft power is finished, kaput, buried under the weight of Trumpism, tariffs, and the dismantling of USAID.Soft power emerges from cultures people want to copy, and no teenager on earth is modeling himself on Xi Jinping Thought.Foreign Policy’s Stephen Walt recently joined the funeral procession, lamenting that the Trump administration holds nothing but contempt for wha...