New world requires new arguments

All that optimism of the 1990s, all that confidence in the new world order, is melting away and in its place feelings of anxiety, fear, and hatred are taking root, emotions that if left unchecked, can lead to nationalism, isolationism, protectionism, and thus to an unravelling of the current global consensus.
Remember Hillary Clinton’s crack about 'deplorables'?
OAKVILLE, ONT.—We hear a lot these days about how we need to prepare for global climate change, but there’s another kind of global change happening right now, and it too requires our attention. Or at least it requires the attention of those who pontificate on politics, because the global change...

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