The foreign policy wunderkind’s optimistic view of the America's future as a superpower is surprising -- his book, The Post-American World, begins with a run-down of categories where America is no longer #1. The journalist/editor drops seven pages of knowledge while chronicling his journey from son of a politician-journalist couple in India, to Reagan Republican, to hyper-intellectual writer for Foreign Affairs, to the Newsweek gig, to the “Muslim Cary Grant”. The combination of Zakaria's refreshing belief that the media is obligated to contextualize the news, and his faith in the resilience of America as a people and a Nation, makes Jon Stewart’s man-crush understandable.
in Playboy by David Sheff, May 2008
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