"The Old Order Is Not Coming Back"

"For a while, the US's allies comforted themselves with the belief that Trump was an aberration who would one day be gone, allowing the old ways to resume. That delusion has also been shattered. When Trump still seemed determined to make good on his Greenland threats, there was no sign of anyone or anything inside the US that would stop him. Over these last 12 months, Trump has demonstrated that the formal restraints designed to hold a US president in check are easily swept away. And if it can happen once, it can happen again. Which means it is not just Trump who is an unreliable ally. Sadly, it is the US itself."

Jonathan Freedland at The Guardian proposes "a new constellation of the European Union plus the UK plus Canada."

"The Task of Our Generation Is to Defeat the Totalitarianisms of the 21st Century"

"Europe is at a crucial juncture of its history. The American shield is slipping away, Ukraine risks being abandoned, and Russia is being strengthened. Washington has become the court of Nero: an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a buffoon on ketamine tasked with purging the civil service."

The Atlantic runs a transcipt of the March 4, 2025, speech by French senator Claude Malhuret.

"A Growing Sense of the Chickens Coming Home to Roost"

"But here's the catch. Le wokisme, which the French love to hate, isn't as foreign as its critics would have you believe. It actually traces its intellectual genealogy, at least in part, back to 1960s French intellectuals who analyzed and 'deconstructed' the language and the symbolism of power, kickstarting a global campus movement."

At Politico, Nicholas Vinocur notes that "France laid the foundations for campus 'woke' ideology."