It’s no different than the so-called end of the “American Century.” I’m with Tom Wolfe, we’ve got about eight more of those to go. Here we have another bien pensant who thinks Europe has everything pretty much figured out. His facts haven’t been adjusted in about 20 years. In another 20 socialism will be permanently discredited, but like Arthur Schlesinger, Dionne will go to his grave proclaiming he was right.