Patrick Lawrence is a columnist, author, editor, and educator. He has published five books and currently writes foreign affairs commentary for Consortium News and other publications. He served as a correspondent abroad for many years and is also an essayist and critic. He has taught at universities in the U.S. and abroad and co-authored a journalism textbook.  Lawrence was a correspondent and subsequently a columnist overseas for more than 20 years, chiefly for the Far Eastern Economic Review, the International Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. He has won two Overseas Press Club Awards as well as other honors and prizes. His reportage, commentary, essays, criticism, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, Business Week, TIME, The Washington Quarterly, World Policy Journal, The Globalist, The Nation, and numerous other publications. Lawrence edited the Herald Tribune's Asian edition before returning to the United States, in 2010. Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century, his most recent book, was published by Yale University Press in 2013. He is now working on his sixth book. Support his work via Patreon.com/thefloutist.