Read Jackson Lears on Zbigniew Brzezinski. One of many nuggets:

Long years of practice had left him at ease with grandiosity in the name of the foreign policy establishment’s favourite pronoun: ‘we’.

Another:

This melding of technocratic and messianic strains would characterise the hymns to ‘globalisation’ in the 1990s. With respect to intellectual fashion at least, Brzezinski was indeed prescient.