Globalization and its cures: Can anything good come out of our messy ideas about how the world works now?
Ideas, knowledge, science, hospitality, travel – these are the things which should of their nature be international. But let goods be homespun whenever it is reasonably and conveniently possible and, above all, let finance be primarily national. Yet, at the same time, those who seek to disembarrass a country of its entanglements should be very slow and wary. It should not be a matter of tearing up roots but of slowly training a plant to grow in a different direction.
That practice of national horticulture now looks resurgent. Globalization brings connections, but no convergence towards consensus.
