America Outgrows Europe
Great civilizations cast giant shadows long after their pillars have crumbled or collapsed altogether. Rome admired and exalted Greece for hundreds of years after it had been conquered by Philip of Macedon and, eventually, Rome itself. Egypt so bewitched Napoleon that he made a special expedition unrelated to any serious strategic value to subdue it. So…
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