Europe’s rise owed much to exceptionally bellicose international politics, urban overcrowding, and frequent epidemics. In the vast graveyard that is Europe, there lies a sacred plot reserved for the Weimar Republic. The EU must not give succour to self-interested revisionists who equate Stalinism and Nazism to smear the left. A review of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West by Christopher Caldwell (and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more and more; and more at Bookforum). How has Muslim hysteria gone unchallenged? Pankaj Mishra on the "Eurabia-mongers". Parag Khanna has a vision of Europe in 2030: A Postmodern Middle Ages. A look at how EU member-states are rejecting integration just when sovereignty worldwide is entering a new period of relativity. From FT, how to make Europe’s military work — but a lack of ambition leaves Europe in the slow lane. Europe is tilting right as America goes left: An interview with political scientist David Cameron. For all their extra vacation days as compared with the US, workers in the EU are keeping pace — or better — in terms of productivity. Thomas Darnstadt on the future of European democracy.
