If they grow tired of muddling through, Europe could decide on two alternative futures: what Smith calls “Fortress Europe” or “Return of the protectorate.”

If they grow tired of muddling through, Europe could decide on two alternative futures: what Smith calls “Fortress Europe” or “Return of the protectorate.”
A delayed book log from 2019, for posterity (or, more accurately, future me).
The seats May failed to court in 2017 could be about to turn.
A seminal moment in Nixon's intellectual evolution came when he read Robert Blake’s biography of Disraeli and came to the conclusion that “Tory men with liberal policies” held the key to electoral success.
Those who support the system Hayek championed would do better to evangelize the arguments he actually makes, rather than defend the views his opponents ascribe to him.
Like the Soviets before them, the Communist Party of China doesn't lack for useful idiots in the West.
Worse than British imperialism is imperialism that lacks self-awareness.
The phrase may sound needy to some British ears, but to Americans it is a source of comfort.
In the face of society’s ambivalence if not active hostility toward his mother’s life and death, one begins to doubt that every taboo shed constitutes progress.
How much misery could have been averted if, in this case, the Allies had stayed the course?