I had been asked to give a keynote speech at a conference at Columbia University’s Journalism School. It was January 2002. Two planes had been flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center months earlier and you could still feel how wounded the city felt. You could read it in the faces of New Yorkers you spoke to.
In my speech I made a few opening remarks about what the United States had meant to me. “I was born 15 years after the Second World War,” I said, “in a world America made. The peace and security and increasing prosperity of the Western Europe that I was born into was in large part an American achievement.”
American military might had won the war in the West, I continued. It had stopped the further westward expansion of Soviet power.
The elite bubble
Gaslight much? “Majority of Europeans Reject Sending Troops and Arms to Ukraine” https://t.co/PAXcDVhNjp
— Blazingcatfur (@fancypants_s) January 26, 2026
Nothing says bubble like the Laurentian elite
My good friend wrote about this: https://t.co/GaH95C6lXA
— Blaise (@boehmerB) January 26, 2026
