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Daniel Simpson

Daniel Simpson has worked as a foreign correspondent for Reuters and The New York Times. He lives in London, where he's writing a book about the love-in on Big War Island

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Obama Nobel Lecture draft leaked!

Obama Nobel Lecture draft leaked!

For much of this past American century, as in others bestridden by Empires that came before ours, the morals guiding relations between states have been those of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment. To quote the murderer Raskolnikov: “he who can spit on what is greatest will be their lawgiver, and he who does the most will be rightest of all.” It’s ugly, so we prefer to cover it up and tell ourselves stories, most often about our benevolence, or “the shining city upon a hill” we call our homelan