This is the remit of The Cosmopolitan Globalist:
The Cosmopolitan Globalist strives to provide educated, erudite, and credible reporting and analysis from the world around, treating issues of global import. It is not nationalist, partisan, narrow-minded, or provincial. Our outlook is cosmopolitan and worldly.
We are attached to 18th-century Enlightenment ideals: rational inquiry, free speech, free trade, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional governance, the rule of law, and the separation of state from church, temple, and mosque. We wonder how these ideals will survive the digital age. We will deliver world-class coverage of consequential events even as we consider every issue from an informed local perspective. Our writers live in the countries from which they report. They understand local politics intimately. We will seek insight from academia and other experts: We value expertise. But we do not worship it.
This weekend, the Cosmopolitan Globalists are at your service. Use the comment section below to ask us any question that falls under our remit. We’ll choose the most qualified among us to answer, and we’ll answer it by Monday morning.
Go on. Ask us anything.
How should the U.S. deal with Germany? The Germans did a great deal of economic damage to the U.S. (and even more to the EU) in the 2010s; they seem to lack knowledge of basic economics (e.g. countries with trade surpluses should not run large fiscal surpluses, if you punish bankrupt countries they will go even more bankrupt, etc).
How do we prevent this from happening again? What kind of pressure would best work against the German government?
Another one: "Hi again, Claire, Do you think our biggest problems are related to our small worldviews? The old Weltanschauung is not what it used to be! We know we live in the universe and all worldviews are necessarily subsumed by an integrated view of the universe. A little start as it happens when we apply base-2 to the Planck base units if we assume Planck Time is the first moment of time. There are just 202 base-2 notations from that first moment to this day and time. Most people can handle 202 steps to get a handle on everything, everywhere for all time.
But within that view many new perspective open up. Pi seems to drive everything, the best dynamic expression of continuity, symmetry and harmony. http://81018.com is where I have begun playing with these concepts."