Many European countries began closing their doors to refugees in 2015, with two notable exceptions: Germany and Sweden. In Foreign Policy, James Traub takes a look into Sweden’s experience over the ensuing half-decade, finding that moralistic internationalism may not be sustainable even for the most caring of nations.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


