What Goes Around Comes Around

Each nation gets its day in the sun, its chance to leave a mark. As a Brit, I’m proud of the fact that my nineteenth-century ancestors gave the world both technology (railways, steamships, electricity) and moral norms (universal education, the abolition of slavery, and of child labour, too). Now it’s America’s turn. America has already given us many great things, from the motor car to the Internet, and has maybe one more generation left in which to make a real difference.