KHADR, ALMOST 16, KILLED ONE AMERICAN SOLDIER AND SERIOUSLY WOUNDED ANOTHER.

fields, but this is the nature of a great deal of current political discourse. The European project is largely one of homogenization — there will be one herniating mass of laws and regulations and heavy taxation and redistribution for all Europe.

The new president of France, Emmanuel Macron, devised a new party whose virtue was that it was none of the existing parties. The new regime promised Eurofederalism with reduced regulation and less social regimentation, but no reduction of social benefit. There would be more and indicates an aversion to disparagement of alternative government and a partial backlash against the Brexit vote among the youth, as the Labour Party’s vote was largely harvested among young people. Certainly, they are more prone to enthusiasm for the European ideal of rising above ancient national conflicts, but also to a desire to be rid of national distinctions, to be taxed and regulated with authority, taken care of, and liberated from the requirements of nationalism and free exercise of maximum practical liberty. Some of this apparent