American `empire' conquers with ideas.(Editorial)

From: The Boston Herald | Date: July 4, 2003 | Copyright information

It goes by many names these days - and the names themselves tell very different stories: Pax Americana, the American Empire, the era of American ascendency or simply America unleashed.

Whether there is a new American Empire is now the subject of books and lectures and conferences. It is apparently that image which gets under the increasingly thin skin of "Old Europe" (itself a designation so bitingly accurate that it seems to have taken on a life of its own), even as Pre...

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