BY MATTHEW SWEET
@DrMatthewSweet
© YVES MARCHAND & ROMAIN MEFFRE, COURTESY POLKA GALERIE
TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, when the world was upside down, Romantic poets strapped on knapsacks and went to dream amid ruins: the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Tintern Abbey. Places of melancholy pleasure. Places that exposed the mutability of powers, empires, ideas.
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MACRON STRONGER THAN LE PEN, BUT FRANCE’S WORRIES FAR FROM OVE
It was the day the world didn’t end, the day that the tide of populism that gave the world Brexit and Donald Trump turned, the moment when French voters chose pragmatism over protest. That, at least, was the judgment of Europe’s establishment at the victory of centrist Emmanuel Macron in the May 7th French presidential election. It’s not hard to see why the defeat of the Euroskeptic, anti-immigration Marine Le Pen was so vital to the West’s future. A victory for Le Pen’s far-right National Front party would likely have heralded the disintegration of the European Union and the end of the continent’s grand experiment with open borders. However, with Macron's victory, establishment Europe shouldn’t feel too relieved about right-winger Marine Le Pen’s defeat in France.