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Yet the battle between secularism and religion in the Arab world does not have to last centuries, as it did in Europe, if only because contemporary generations can benefit from the long process of social and scientific progress that enabled the West to pave the way to modern democracy.
The Leninist “democratic centralism” to which Morsi seemed to have subscribed, if maintained, will be a standing provocation to the new generations and their allies in the old state apparatus to rise up, even at the price of civil war.
American democracy’s emphasis on short time horizons is costly, with tax cuts and increased welfare benefits giving rise to chronic fiscal deficits, with future generations forced to foot the bill for years of excessive consumption.
This generation will thank us – and so will many generations to come.
Societies in which the official unemployment rate stands at 10% or more for generations are societies in which government economic management has failed.
Everyone should want today’s undivided Europe to build on these accomplishments, rather than for generations of high unemployment to jeopardize them.
One example: Venezuela’s overall population has grown 14% over the past 13 years, but electoral rolls have jumped 53%; the new voters can be ghosts, Colombians, or several generations of chavista supporters already registered to vote, even before they are born.
The Promise of TelemedicineACCRA/BASEL – In low- and middle-income countries, insufficient access to medical care undermines health outcomes and disadvantages entire generations.
Two generations ago, most countries had censors who not only tried to prevent younger people from seeing certain films but who actually banned books.
The world’s richer countries created their regulatory infrastructure over generations, during a time when there was little direct global competition.
Only by focusing on these fundamentals, rather than merely tinkering with the details of food production, can intrinsic systemic linkages work to the advantage of future generations.
The epigeneticist view was clearly wrong, because something stable had to be transmitted across generations.
But the preformist view that the entity transmitted across generations was the whole organism was contradicted by the impossibility of segmenting objects infinitely.
The way people around the world, especially younger generations, think and act about such changes will be central to our collective future.
In fact, governments should be even more ambitious, implementing national laws and action plans that tackle the problem now, instead of kicking the can down the road for future generations to deal with.
Sharia first blossomed during a period of creative ferment centuries ago, but stagnated when later generations came to believe that the law need not adapt to changing circumstances.
The cleverest, most literally earth-shattering notions of physics for two generations came not from the expected powerhouses of the day, but from Budapest.
And whereas previous generations of scientists quickly found new substitutes, today, in many cases, doctors are down to their last line of defense.
In fact, like past generations’ loading of the earth’s atmosphere with carbon, nuclear weapons represent a legacy to overcome.
In some ways, the great ideological struggles of the twentieth century now seem about as close and relevant as the scholastic debates of the Middle Ages – especially, but not only, for younger generations.
Today, however, the cohesive forces that held Europe together for two generations have lost some (if not all) of their strength.
Thus, the time needed to narrow the gap between Europe's east and west will be measured in generations, not years.
If the ties that have bound Europe together for two generations are fraying, what alternative bonds can be found?
The West has no choice but to strike a better balance – between capital and labor, between current and future generations, and between the financial sector and the real economy.
On both shores of the Mediterranean, generations have passed and new connections have been formed.
It is time for statesmanship to return – for the sake of current and future generations in Europe and the world.
At the end of the day, the main challenge confronting governments is the same as in earlier eras: to make life better – longer, healthier, wealthier, and more secure – for current and future generations.
It makes financial sense for states to share the cost of public investments, such as infrastructure projects or public services, with future generations, which will also benefit from them.
The Congress of Vienna reinstated the principle of the balance of power, based on the belief that all parties shared a common interest transcending their respective ambitions, and re-established the Concert of Nations, which for two generations stopped territorial and ideological revisionism of the type seen from 1789 to 1815.
Only future generations will know the true price.
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