In The Spectator, Travis Aaroe knits together the seemingly isolated instances of bland functionaries suddenly thrusting themselves into politics and quickly being installed to govern a troubled Western country. Aaroe regards this rise of what he terms “liberal Caesars” as globalism’s answer to populist democratic nationalism, a view that clarifies the otherwise inexplicably meteoric political rises of Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Donald Tusk – and Mark Carney.
Blueprint for Alberta?
Writing in Jewish World Review, Frederic Fransen reminds Americans of a key lesson from Revolutionary War-era pamphleteer Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. “The colonies need to declare independence,” Fransen summarizes Paine, “because so long as their goal was seen as reconciliation, foreign governments would consider the Americans as rebels and the conflict an internal affair.” But a unilateral declaration of independence, Fransen notes, instantly converts mere complaints from an aggrieved group into a negotiation between sovereign states.
