The Globalist

America, on the road to become like Europe’s social democracies, is losing its exceptionalism.

Do Americans still do justice to the ideals of individualism that Alexis de Tocqueville believed were embodied by U.S. society?

How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

How have religious influences changed the way Americans and Europeans think about the role of government?

Will democracy prevail in this former Soviet state?