Walking Away From Empire

Guy McPherson was a successful professor by every imperial measure: well-published in all the right places, he taught and mentored students who acquired the best jobs in the field, and performed abundant, exemplary professional service. He earned enough to live on a third of his income and still traveled as much as he desired throughout the industrialized world.

In other words, McPherson was the perfect model of all that is wrong with the United States and, by extension, the nations looking ...