The decline of the myopic American imperial project, the ‘Great Experiment’ for education, and a conversation beyond the boundaries

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Notes

1. Thanks to Lydia Pungur for suggesting this proverb.

2. American political discourses are unique in the world. For example, what Americans call ‘liberal’, Europeans and Canadians would more likely call liberal democrat, social liberal or social democrat – although Canadians are increasingly borrowing the American political lexicon. What Americans call ‘conservative’, Europeans and Canadians would call neoliberal, neoclassical liberal or libertarian. In other words, the political spectrum in the USA runs from one form of liberalism to another – for the most part socialists, conservatives (e.g. Tories), and others need not apply if they question the defining core features of liberalism, which becomes synonymous with capitalism and small ‘l’ liberalism: individualism, markets, private property, rights discourse and so on, which incorporates a narrow intellectual axis from John Locke, Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, and J.S. Mill to Friedrich Hayek, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick.