To get real, Americans must urgently rethink many modern mythologies they hold dear.
Europe: The United States of Greater Austria?

Franz Ferdinand envisaged a reconstruction of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Could it have worked?
The Creeping Saudi Arabization of America

The U.S. Supreme Court chips away at the separation between church and state.
Systematically Silencing America

How Republicans and their cynical allies deal with America’s real problems.
German Scientists as 18th-Century Globalists

The Germans did not have an overseas empire in the 18th century. How did they still become a global force in trade, science, religion and exploration?
Air Conditioning: A Form of Gender Discrimination?
How might environmentalists try to hang their hats on ending gender discrimination?
Gordon Brown on Renewing Western Economies
According to the former UK prime minister, what needs to be done to revive the Western economies?
LVMH’s Bernard Arnault on “Reverse Globalization”
How has globalization affected how Europe’s richest man does business?
Message from Singapore: When the West Is No Longer in Control
What does Singapore’s finance minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, think about the future of the global economy?
Who Lost Egypt?
Did America lose Egypt? Or did China — and what China represents — gain Egypt?