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