Moments In Flow

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  • The Country of Deposit

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    How Europe Outsourced Its Cruelty, and Why the Bill Is Coming Due There is a word for what Europe has built in the Mediterranean, and it is not “border management.” It is externalisation. The policy is simple: stop people from arriving, and pay someone else to do the stopping. The payment is real. The stopping…

  • The Coming Divorce: Washington, Brussels, and the New Puritan Century

    By an observer of the long cycle There is a story the commentariat keeps telling itself, and it is wrong. The story is that the transatlantic alliance is enduring a “rough patch” — a temporary spat between allies who will, once the current occupant of the White House leaves, return to business as usual. That…