To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
James Snyder in conversation with Moshe Halbertal, Biblical scholar specializing in the legacy of Maimonides, and Anthony Roth Costanzo, American countertenor who portrayed Akhenaten in the Philip Glass opera “Akhenaten” in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2019-2020 season, discussing creative interpretations of the emergence of the Middle East’s most significant contribution to the history of world religion—the belief in a single, all-powerful God.