Harold James: Europe’s fringes appear determined to escape into the past: Europe’s western and eastern fringes obsess about dates that recall their struggles with the core: 1914, 1815, 1709, 1707, 1704, and 1612, among others. By contrast, the European core is obsessed with transcending history, with working out institutional mechanisms for overcoming the conflicts that … Continue reading Morning Must-Read: Harold James: In Peripheral Europe, the Past Is Not Dead: It Is Not Even Past