managing the sunset while thinking they are ruling the dawn.....
The current European nonentities have replaced titans—flawed, perhaps, but figures with gravitas, charisma, and historical will. There was Merkel, who could take a punch; Macron, young and with the ambitions of a new Napoleon; and even Johnson with his chaotic but distinct style


As a private citizen, I have long sought to understand how finance has imposed its influence on the States themselves.


