Joel Kotkin investigates the United States’ place on the world stage in The American Mind. Despite significant reasons for regression – the least of which he feels is the current political “doom loop” – Kotkin argues that the U.S. Constitution’s self-correcting nature, the nation’s enormous physical endowment and its people’s innovative spirit will enable the indispensable country to maintain its global role.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
