JOEL KOTKIN: The New World Order: “Tribal ties—race, ethnicity, and religion—are becoming more important than borders.”

UPDATE: Reader Jorge Del Rio emails:

I’m extremely busy this week and it’s already almost 10pm here in Luxembourg (GMT+1) but I wanted to know: should I bother waiting up to hear the Left denounce the latest terror warnings as an attempt to scare the American public just prior to an election?

Get some sleep, Jorge.