Walter Russell Mead - How America Keeps Winning
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy
- Published
- September 8, 2026
- Duration
- 1h 14m
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- Last updated
- Sep 8, 2026
Discusses investing.
Summary
My guest today is Walter Russell Mead. Walter is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providence and God and Gold, two of the best books written on American power. He has spent decades studying how the United States came to dominate the world, and our conversation is about whether it can keep doing so. Walter lays out the five …
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My guest today is Walter Russell Mead. Walter is a columnist at the Wall Street Journal and the author of Special Providence and God and Gold, two of the best books written on American power. He has spent decades studying how the United States came to dominate the world, and our conversation is about whether it can keep doing so. Walter lays out the five step playbook that carried the Dutch, then the British, then America to global leadership, and why the same pattern keeps beating centralized c
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- investing