Patrick L. Smith (page 5)

Patrick Smith is Salon’s foreign affairs columnist. A longtime correspondent abroad, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker, he is also an essayist, critic and editor. His most recent books are “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” (Yale, 2013) and Somebody Else’s Century: East and West in a Post-Western World (Pantheon, 2010). Follow him @thefloutist. His web site is patricklawrence.us.


Tom Cotton
Thomas Friedman, Benjamin Netanyahu, John Kerry
Jeb Bush, Rudy Giuliani
Greek Protesters
Joseph McCarthy
Barack Obama, Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin