"My Gen X colleagues serving in the Biden administration have engaged in similar eye-rolling about the younglings, and I get it. Disagreeing with U.S. foreign policy in Gaza or elsewhere is perfectly understandable — but if you really feel that strongly about it, quit your damn job and then complain all you want in public!"
C'mon, Dan! You're not supposed to let opportunities to reference Hirschman that are this golden pass you by! Maybe the kids actually did some of the readings.
I’m with Drezner. The articles he’s critiquing are contrary to my experience. I’m middle aged and mid-level, but I see an enormous amount of young talent on the way up. This is in no small part because the shift from who you know to what you know in hr processes is getting in some really sharp people who never would have gotten a look previously. If you’re a fletcher, sais, cipa, Kennedy school person, maybe it looks like things are going sideways because not everyone has the exact same credentials and experience as in the past, but there’s a lot of really creative thinking among the new crop.
Is he thinking of the era of the "Wise Men"? If you look at the expansion of the UN from 51 nations in 1945 to 193 now, the evolution from the bipolar world of the Communist bloc and the free world bloc to today's diversity, the tripling of the ratio of international trade to the world's GDP from 1950 to now,, the increase in immigration flows over the same period, perhaps our statecraft is better than ever, but has failed to keep up with the complexity of the problems?
"My Gen X colleagues serving in the Biden administration have engaged in similar eye-rolling about the younglings, and I get it. Disagreeing with U.S. foreign policy in Gaza or elsewhere is perfectly understandable — but if you really feel that strongly about it, quit your damn job and then complain all you want in public!"
C'mon, Dan! You're not supposed to let opportunities to reference Hirschman that are this golden pass you by! Maybe the kids actually did some of the readings.
I’m with Drezner. The articles he’s critiquing are contrary to my experience. I’m middle aged and mid-level, but I see an enormous amount of young talent on the way up. This is in no small part because the shift from who you know to what you know in hr processes is getting in some really sharp people who never would have gotten a look previously. If you’re a fletcher, sais, cipa, Kennedy school person, maybe it looks like things are going sideways because not everyone has the exact same credentials and experience as in the past, but there’s a lot of really creative thinking among the new crop.
Is he thinking of the era of the "Wise Men"? If you look at the expansion of the UN from 51 nations in 1945 to 193 now, the evolution from the bipolar world of the Communist bloc and the free world bloc to today's diversity, the tripling of the ratio of international trade to the world's GDP from 1950 to now,, the increase in immigration flows over the same period, perhaps our statecraft is better than ever, but has failed to keep up with the complexity of the problems?
I was unaware of events in Guatemala. Amazing!