... employs a wide lens, drawing on governance, economics and culture. Call it 'applied history'.

... a pithy roundup of some of the inevitable global changes that will follow the current pandemic.

... [a] scattershot treatise.

... true to this author’s rather unflinching humanism.

Zakaria is a rational, thoughtful thinker and an excellent communicator who has essentially put together ten extended opinion columns like you regularly see in the Washington Post.