For nearly a century, American global power has rested on a three-legged tripod: unmatched military firepower, the ubiquitous sovereignty of the US dollar and the intellectual dominance of its higher-education system. While aircraft carriers project hard power and Wall Street manages global capital, the American university system has quietly manufactured the “soft power,” technological breakthroughs […]
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