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The Dawn of Uncivilization
The Dawn of Uncivilization
The aftermath of a shelling on March 5, 2022 in Markhalivka, Ukraine. Regional police said six people died, including a child. (Anastasia Vlasova/Getty Images)
The war in Ukraine and the emerging post-American order.
By Peter Savodnik
03.07.22 — International
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The Dawn of Uncivilization

In the fall of 1992, I was a junior at Middlebury College, and I took a seminar on American foreign policy. It was a very small New England college kind of affair. Snow on the quad. Lots of fleeces and papers and reading and chit chat about externships and Bill Clinton and Rhodes Scholars and someone’s girlfriend at Williams or Dartmouth. (Did it matter…

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Peter Savodnik

Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair, as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other venues—reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.

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