Henry Kissinger once sarcastically asked whom he should call in Europe if the world caught fire. However nasty, Henry the K was right. At the time, the EU had no recognizable chief. That has been the EU's problem since birth. The EU's power and identity were fragmented between its vast, Kafkaesque Brussels bureaucracy, the European... Read More

The noted British parliamentarian Enoch Powell famously observed, “all political careers end in failure.” Never has Powell's grim maxim been more poignantly demonstrated than in Tony Blair's announcement last week that he will resign at the end of June as Britain's prime minister. Blair's decade in office was marked by many successes and often demonstrated... Read More