The past few years have not been kind to those who believe in human progress, especially of the American sort. During the 1990s, Americans were promised a future of effortless bliss, in which the end of the Cold War had dispatched the blood and mess of history, and markets would soon take care of everything else. Instead, they got the Iraq War, inequality, Trump and a pandemic the likes of which the world had not seen in a century.
correction
An earlier version of this review incorrectly said that Black Cube private security operatives who sought to discredit and entrap Rhodes had been hired by the state of Israel. Rhodes said he does not know who hired them. The review has been corrected.
