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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A US Marine Corps VXE30 Stalker unmanned aerial system is staged during a maritime domain awareness training exercise in southern Finland on July 31, 2025. (DVIDS)