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The Post-Imperial Moment
Vulgar, populist anarchy will define the twenty-first century.
IN 1935, the anti-Nazi writer and Austrian-Jewish intellectual Joseph Roth published a story, “The Bust of the Emperor,” about an elderly count at the chaotic fringe of the former Habsburg Empire who refused to think of himself…