The Worst of Times

The Worst of Times

Henry Luce would have been mortified. The founder of Time magazine believed Americans had a responsibility to stand up to the enemies of freedom and democracy.  He saw the 20th century as "the first great American Century." He would have wanted the United States to lead in the current era as well.

Now Time has hired Fareed Zakaria who is perhaps best known for "The Post-American World" which, he insists, "is not a book about the decline of America, but rather about the rise of everyone else."

Among those rising: self-proclaimed jihadis and Islamists about whom Zakaria expresses minimal concern. On...