Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Quote of the Day I

Joel Kotkin and colleagues, writing in the Legatum Institute publication The New World Order:
Like the Roman Empire which survived for hundreds of years after the Augustan golden age, the Anglosphere is not close to its demise. After all, if Rome could come back from Caligula and Nero, the Anglosphere should be able to persist after George Bush and Barack Obama.
Equating Bush and Obama with Caligula and Nero is harsh, but it makes Kotkin's point.