Is there anyone more erudite than Krauthammer? I don’t always agree with him, and he is sometimes proven wrong, but the thoughts are expressed so cogently. He offers tremendous insight. Not nuance; deep insight.

His writings are conceptually dense. His turns of phrase are powerful. Benign hegemon? Not just of will, but wallet? Gauzy internationalism of the New Liberalism? Magically self-enforcing norms? He puts defining labels to the concepts. Poetry!