Over the past few years, I have often found myself frustrated with the limitations of my view of the world, with the relative narrowness of my perspective on our current political moment. More often than not, though, it’s a frustration with myself for paying attention to the wrong things, in the wrong places. This sense of wanting to look farther afield, to reorient my perspective, is informed by a growing sense that the world is changing with perplexing speed, and that the poles of global power are shifting. “The genocide in Gaza has destroyed what remains of the illusion that the West should determine the future for the rest of the world,” they write. The historian Nikhil Pal Singh on the Trump administration’s enactment of a borderless American power, from Venezuela to Minnesota.

Source: The Irish Times January 31, 2026 06:34 UTC