Walter Russell Mead discusses academics’ whining about artificial intelligence, 200 years of United States failure in Haiti, the “great slackening” in American high schools, and why Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu both benefit from fighting each other in public on his podcast, What Really Matters.
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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)