And for the here and now. A memorable discourse on America's place in the world, by the leader of a US neighbor and former friend.
James Fallows
Captioned: Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, acknowledging a rare-for-Davos sustained standing ovation, at the end of his brief (17 minutes) but exquisitely composed address to the 1,800-person crowd of world financial and political leaders yesterday. He explained American values, and lamented the effects of their permanent loss, far more eloquently than the person who ranted, complained, bragged, and lied on that same stage this morning. And who left the stage to sparse applause except from his own staffers. (Photo Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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None of us can know for sure whether yesterday’s brief address at Davos, by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney, will similarly be remembered as marking a turning point in understanding world power, and of America’s role. But there’s a chance it will be. ...
...the main accomplishments of the speech were these:
James Fallows
Captioned: Mark Carney, prime minister of Canada, acknowledging a rare-for-Davos sustained standing ovation, at the end of his brief (17 minutes) but exquisitely composed address to the 1,800-person crowd of world financial and political leaders yesterday. He explained American values, and lamented the effects of their permanent loss, far more eloquently than the person who ranted, complained, bragged, and lied on that same stage this morning. And who left the stage to sparse applause except from his own staffers. (Photo Harun Ozalp/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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None of us can know for sure whether yesterday’s brief address at Davos, by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney, will similarly be remembered as marking a turning point in understanding world power, and of America’s role. But there’s a chance it will be. ...
...the main accomplishments of the speech were these:
- rupture, not a “transition.”
- power of the less powerful. With many adjustments for scale, Carney was paralleling the message that democracy in the United States now depends less on its once-reliable institutions than on the millions of individuals who are standing up, wherever and however they can.
- the world has changed forever
- honesty
- modesty
