Make Sure You Read This

There's a really good analysis of the problems besetting Europe at City Journal. Theodore Dalrymple delivers the correct conclusion at the very end:

In short, the incontinent spending of many European governments, which awarded whole populations unearned benefits at the expense of generations to come, has—along with a megalomaniacal currency union—produced a crisis not merely economic but social, political, and even civilizational. The European Union that was supposed to put an end to war on the continent has resuscitated antagonisms that might end in bellicosity, if not in outright war. And the European Project stands revealed as what any sensible person could have seen it always was: something akin to the construction of a massive, post-Tito Yugoslavia.

And we all know how that ended. Read the whole thing -- it's longish but definitely worth your time. And remember this -- people who admire Europe and its peculiarities are currently in charge of our government at the federal level.