is almost certainly at the root of many of the current differences between Europe and the US, related to the situation in Iraq but also in many other domains. An Economist article from this week’s edition delves into the question. The idea of “American exceptionalism,” for those that don’t know, dates back all the way to de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
There’s another very interesing discussion of this concept in the form of a transcript of the PBS show, Think Tank with Ben Wattenberg.
