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There’s Nothing Exceptional About Any Country
Almost every nation at some point believes it’s special and on a mission.
They’re all wrong, and the sooner we get over this nonsense, the better.
- Andreas Kluth
- Bloomberg
Pundits have recently proclaimed “the end” — or exposed “the myth” — of British exceptionalism.
It’s hard for Brits to keep seeing themselves as uniquely heroic while bungling their response to a pandemic, fumbling through Brexit and literally boxing up statues of national idols to…
Other observers have similarly announced the end of Swedish exceptionalism, because of an unorthodox epidemiological approach to…