HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Why is there more intellectual freedom in Bucharest than Cambridge? “The students in Bucharest were doing what students are supposed to do: hearing each side of the argument. They didn’t show any of the symptoms of intellectual decay that I often encounter among students in the Anglosphere.”

Donald Rumsfeld’s comments on the superiority of “New Europe” to “Old Europe,” though mocked at the time, now seem prescient.