Walter Russell Mead, one of the nation’s most distinguished foreign policy experts, visits Zócalo to discuss the themes of his latest book, God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, in which he gives an illuminating account of the birth, the rise, and the continuing rise, of a global political and economic system that rested first on the power of Britain and rests today on that of the United States–and now faces a new set of formidable challenges. Mead argues that the key to the world-shaping predominance of the two countries has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. He explains how this helped create a culture uniquely adapted to capitalism and how, as a result, the two nations were able to create the liberal, democratic system that still exerts the greatest economic and social influence around the world.