The assimilationist English Culture is transforming the Anglosphere into something beyond racial or ethnic phenomenon--the emergence of a successor civilization accessible to the world.
Peter Hitchens, The Abolition of Britain: From Winston Churchill to Princess Diana (London: Quartet Books, 2000), 330 pages, $22.95
A union of English-speaking nations would provide a plausible alternative direction for the world's future political evolution.
The European Union's continuing efforts at economic, political, and social integration are increasing the differences between Britain and the Continent.
British and American economic success and growth flow from those nations' knack for creating "social capital," especially the capacity to assimilate immigrants into the nation's cultural fabric.
A. James Gregor, The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 256 pages, $35.00
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, 2000, Sony Pictures Classics, dir. Ang Lee, starring Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi, Chang Chen, Cheng Pei-Pei. In Chinese with subtitles.
Interests, not cultural compatibility, are the only sound basis for a foreign policy.
Britain's economy is diverging from those of Europe and converging with those of the other English-speaking nations. That is why it is much more robust than Europe's.
American and British conservatives exaggerate the European Union's alleged antipathy toward freedom and overlook the great benefits of a unified Europe.
Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards, Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001), 416 pages, $15.00
The decline of traditional, informal systems of restraint and the rise of political correctness suggest a new moral order that bodes ill for Western civilization.
America's ability to overcome ethnic differences comes in handy in its role as the sole current superpower, but the European Union's ambition to become a superstate, as they like to call it, poses significant dangers.
Successful relations among the English-speaking countries will require more attention to their internal ethnic and cultural diversity.
Inconsistent historical relations between the United States and the United Kingdom have hastened Britain's increasing integration into the European Union.
The economies of Great Britain and the rest of Europe will not become sufficiently alike to allow for a successful single currency, because they are based on fundamentally different principles.
For three hundred years, Great Britain's fundamental political concepts have differed significantly from those of continental Europe. This difference in outlook will remain a stumbling block for further British integration into the European Union.
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