French mother, Kenyan father, raised in New York City and the Bible Belt... Mugambi Jouet can speak from extensive personal experience about the view of America from within, and from the rest of the world.
He takes up the baked-in belief that this country is the greatest one, in the book Exceptional America: What Divides Americans from the World and from Each Other. You can bet the term or at least the set of beliefs will rise from the pandemic and become a factor in this year's political campaigns.
Mugambi Jouet visited with Robert Goodwin in 2017 for an episode of The Keenest Observers; we present the interview again here.