If you can parse the academic jargon and get past the ad hominem, the article is a basic meditation on how the state of information technology continues to supp

If you can parse the academic jargon and get past the ad hominem, the article is a basic meditation on how the state of information technology continues to support both centralization and distribution of decisions. This ambivalence mirrors the paradox of American empire, where the United States sees itself simultaneously as a guarantor of global order and a bulwark against world government: the “world’s policeman” unbound by international law.