Walter Russell Mead discusses academics’ whining about artificial intelligence, 200 years of United States failure in Haiti, the “great slackening” in American high schools, and why Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu both benefit from fighting each other in public on his podcast, What Really Matters.

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth greets Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Christopher Cavoli before the North Atlantic Council meeting of defense ministers on February 13, 2025, in Brussels, Belgium. (Omar Havana via Getty Images)