The US once had a unifying national myth, a narrative (and the will to enforce it) that could forge a single republic out of disparate elements. Today, we stand at the end of a long and steady process aimed at discrediting that myth.

Europe has never had the benefit of such a narrative and, without some calamitous event that obliterates the long extant order and reforges the survivors (both human and cultural) into a functional whole, it seems unlikely the ever will. Hence Dalrymple’s observations.

Oh, wait, this was about the EU. Never mind.