William Pfaff Quotes
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The center holds; passion falls away. That is what happened ideologically in Western Europe over recent years.
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The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.
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But Americans are different from everyone else in the world - except the Canadians, and Americans are more different from the Canadians than they often think.
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For four hundred years European civilization has dominated the world - for better or for worse. It is convenient, and flattering, for Americans to assume that this is all over; but it very rash to do so.
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The achievement of nationhood is a product not only of time and circumstance but usually of war and suffering as well.
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The moral spectacle of capitalism still offends, as does American capitalism's implacable insistence that the market determine value even in the political, intellectual, and artistic spheres.
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Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans.
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America's problem is how to free itself from the grip of it's exhausted ideas.