ET TU, USA?
It’s a question people in the United States have been asking for almost as long as there’s been a United States. It’s also the title of a 2007 book by Cullen Murphy, editor-at-large of the and—full disclosure—my dad. The book struck a nerve at a time when the United States was mired in two unending wars, beset by growing inequality, and on the verge of economic collapse. But a global pandemic and a president who was once the star of . So with the fall of Rome on everyone’s minds again, I called up my paterfamilias to ask a variation of another age-old question: Are we there yet?
