I LOVE this line: ". . . keep holding your academic seminars, writing your unread articles, awarding each other meaningless prizes, and looking down your noses at Donald Trump and Marco Rubio." The people Deputy Secretary Landau is referring to will take offense to this, claiming it is merely an expression of resentment and insecurity. That's because those same people don't realize that they are dinosaurs and the asteroid has already hit. Those sorts of embittered academic snobs do not recognize that the post-WWII rules-based international order has largely failed, that the nations that were once the focus of our most important alliances and diplomacy have become mostly impotent and irrelevant, that the Western Hemisphere is now America's most important region, and that the greatest threat to humanity today is global Islamist jihad (i.e., a threat that obeys no diplomatic rules or niceties and is dealt with effectively only via brute force and violence). Well done, Christopher Landau.