Joined with the John Derbyshire metropolitan/provincial article of yesterday, I thought this new article in Policy Review was quite similar if much more dense. This has set my mind afire once again thinking about my antebellum Whigs, cosmopolitans par excellence. Are you "citizens of the world," or merely provincials? Brings to mind Joseph de Maistre's famous remark, "In the course of my life, I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians ... But as for man, I declare that I have never met him in my life; if he exists, he is unknown to me."