Spectator expects good specs to place its bets

The Spectator is a British magazine. In general, why is the UK (by this word understand "the prospects of a new British Empire") more threatening than the US, in psychohistorical terms (cultural-informational power, the power of meanings; symbols rule the world)? Compare the tone of the article, written by a historian, to the general tone …

Catharsis and Anglo individualism

Pattberg wrote an interesting piece at The Saker (his texts are usually interesting), however, as far as one can judge from the comments, usually Anglo-Saxons (by this word I mean those embedded within the culture regardless of ethnicity) end up falling into empiricism. "My personal experience with this issue..." "Oh my neighbor's cousin is exactly like that!" …