... an influential pamphlet For Rifkin, Europe is making history, that depicted Europeans as lotus eaters in a may even be the end of history. The EU, he Kantian paradise or, more accurately, an ar­ says, is the “first governing experiment in a tificial Eden that only existed because eagle- world...

... British, French citizens’ sense of siege. Dutch, or even North American owners. A friend from Lyon told me about a farmhouse An American in Paris he and some friends were renting this sum­ Jeremy Rifkin, whose book The European mer in Narbonne. “Imagine,” he said still Dream had just come out...