After Europe

It was the most powerful restatement that the governing formula of the EU—namely, policies without politics in Brussels and politics without policies on the national level—had been reinforced by the crisis

If we wonder why Bulgarians have tended to be governed by the wrong people in recent years, we have to ask if mass emigration could be the culprit. The citizen who decides to leave his country hardly has the reform of the country he has left in mind. He is interested in changing his own lot in life, not the lives of others.

The political struggle between Clinton and Trump was one between sea power and land power, between people who think in terms of space and people who think in terms of place.

The conflicts between Anywheres and Somewheres, between globalists and nativists, and between open societies and closed societies have become more important in shaping voters’ political identities than previous class-based identities.

Public opinion is no more innately wise than humans are innately kind.