Ann Coulter’s no exception, says the novelist Jane Smiley. “Real” Americans are evil, racist hate-mongers:

Americans, true patriotic red, white, and blue Americans like hate. They feel comfortable with it and always have. Over the years, they’ve hated the Irish, the Italians, black people, foreigners of all kinds, Catholics, Chinese workers on the railroad, Jews, Hispanics, gays, fans of the White Sox–the list is as long as your arm. And, of course, it makes any decent American uncomfortable, but “real” Americans are beyond shame–they are so ignorant and poorly brought up and fearful and pandered to by haters in the media that they don’t even hear themselves disgorging sewage from their mouths, they don’t see the ignorant, vicious looks on their faces, they don’t hear the stupidity of their own laughter.

In the National Interest, Anatol Levien considers the long political journey of Francis Fukuyama.
Buried somewhere in the middle is this gem:

Truly deep and radical thought in the foreign-policy-oriented sections of U.S. academia and think tanks is deadened both by the hegemony of American civic-nationalist ideology and by the interlacing of these institutions with the organs of government. As a result, too many formally independent American experts in fact tailor their every statement so that it can never be held against them by a possible political patron or at a Senate confirmation hearing. As a retired U.S. ambassador put it to me recently, “in terms of free debate and moral courage, there is nothing worse than a permanent campaign for unelected office.”

Demonstrators in Nuremberg, southeast Germany, protest against anti-Semitism and recent inflammatory remarks made by Irans’s president Sunday, June 11. 2006. The same day Mexico is playing against Iran in group D during the soccer world cup in the Frankenstadium, Nuremberg, Germany (AP Photo/Daniel Roland)

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