Waterford, Ireland
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Americans have always flirted with the end of the world. But now, for the first time, the preppers, the prophets, the climate modelers, the AI-worriers and the geopolitical realists can all point to different dashboards flashing red at the same time.
~ John Mac Ghlionn via The Hill
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Slow, deliberate, necessarily discreet diplomacy, which builds trust and understanding, has given way to a performative, brash style more suited for TikTok-addled attention spans or the playground.
~ Margaret MacMillan via The New York Times
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Canadians may be intellectually curious about the prospect of European Union membership and angry at Donald Trump’s America -— which, according to a recent Pew poll, they now view more negatively than they do China —- but they may not be eager to accept the sweeping transformation of their country’s laws and regulations that E.U. membership would entail.
~ Ishaan Tharoor via The New Yorker
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Just as God shaped man in his own image from clay, Europe was to be shaped by the United States according to its will. Immersion in consumer society was not enough; the same logic demanded the penetration not only of households and groceries with American wares but of people’s minds with American ideas and norms.
~ Baptiste Detombe via American Affairs
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