(City Journal) George F. Will - When the Cold War ended, my friend Pat Moynihan asked me: "What are you conservatives going to hate, now that you can't hate Moscow?" My instant response was: "We are going to hate Brussels" - Brussels, because it is the banal home of the metastasizing impulse to transfer political power from national parliaments to supranational agencies that are essentially unaccountable and unrepresentative. Most of the political calamities through which the world has staggered since 1919 have resulted from the distinctively modern belief that things - including nations and human nature - are much more plastic, much more malleable, than they actually are. In the 85 years since 1919, many more than 100 million people have perished in violence intended to force the world into new configurations.
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