‘Eat, Pray, Admit You’re From An Empire’

The Loss of American Innocence and Exceptionalism

“Americans will never understand their own country until they see it as the rest of the world does,” wrote Suzy Hansen in The Guardian, in an excerpt from her book, Notes on a Foreign Country.

She called it “the myth of American innocence.” It might also be called willful ignorance of the world, blindness, or a belief that if we do not assert our power a…