It has become popular to describe our current era as post-Western or perhaps post-American. The problem isn’t necessarily that these terms are wrong. Rather, it’s that they focus on what is being replaced rather than what is doing the replacing. I’ve been as guilty as anyone. Some years ago, I had an editor who titled one of my books The Future Is Asian . I was ecstatic at his bold framing. There’s just one problem, I chided him: “The present is already Asian for most of humanity.” One of the