Although this article is highly speculative, and somewhat light-hearted and fanciful in tone, it is intended to serve, if not as a beacon, at least a premonition of what such a beacon might look like. There are obviously many serious issues involved in a move toward this model, and not
We are grateful to George Schöpflin for his thoughtful response to our article: America, England, Europe: Why Do We Differ? But he makes some criticisms that seem to us to be based upon a misunderstanding of our argument. Is it a fair criticism, for instance, to say that the article
INTRODUCTION For much of the twentieth century, it was widely accepted in liberal circles that America is the blueprint for the future of other countries. England was treated as a similar blueprint in the nineteenth century. But the Anglosphere cannot be a blueprint for other, very different countries. Even Continental
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