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Reactions to Trump show that elites are also susceptible to collective moods. When a CNN correspondent asked a female protester on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC, about her response to the new President’s Inaugural address, she laid her head back and howled like a wounded animal. To many Americans it seems as if it is…
London, Europe’s most globalized city. Of the roughly 8 million inhabitants, white Britons now make up less than half. The city is rich and at the same time rickety. While neighbourhoods such as Chelsea and Kensington are plunged into evening darkness by rich owners living elsewhere, districts like Hackney and Ilford have many bodies and…
India’s growth can zero out all the world’s environmental measures Nigambodh Ghat is the place where the Hindu god Brahma bathed in the Yamuna River and regained his memory. Today the river runs thick as snot. Nigambodh is one of the busiest outdoor crematoriums in Delhi. Fifty pyres a day, every day. The ashes are…
Herder vs. Fichte and the fight for the soul of nationalism Imagine a time of globalization, modernization; of decadence and alienation. Imagine living in a country where the mother tongue is devalued at the university. Where elites pride themselves on declaring stronger loyalty to foreigners than to socially inferior compatriots. Where the universalisms of the…
The world is changing, as will international relations. The West was never so powerful nor so influential as it was in the years immediately after the Cold War. Over time, the western community had been woven together by institutions; given a central nervous system where technologies, trade and security were shared among states in a…
Ambassador Samantha Powers’s outburst against Russia at the UN is aptly symbolizes the decay of the American-led order “That, gentlemen is not just a sleeping man, it’s a sad metaphor. The second-most powerful man in what was once the most powerful country on earth.” President Eisenhower’s comment upon arriving for a meeting with British Foreign…