The course of human events
What good is U.S. diplomacy with Russia? Can democracy live with huge laws passed by just a few votes? & Is it finally dead in Hong Kong? … + The weird end of the U.S.-China trade war. Why Americans are losing interest in news. Music from Michael Gordon. &c. … The member’s despatch, Week XXVII.
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The course of human events
The course of human events
with family and friends. But July 4 isn’t that exceptional this time of year, outside the American imagination:
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Bastille Day is is coming up in France, on July 14. In the U.K. and throughout the Commonwealth, June 14 was the King’s Official Birthday. July 1 was Canada Day—Dominion Day, as they still called it when I was a kid. And our friends in the Nordic countries celebrated the summer solstice sometime in the last week of June, depending on where. Meanwhile, politics keeps polarizing; media keeps polarizing; and everyday people keep checking out. If you’re in the Northern Hemisphere, and feel you need to get in on that, summer
