{"id":343,"date":"2002-03-18T16:52:15","date_gmt":"2002-03-18T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/03\/the-anglosphere-illusion\/"},"modified":"2002-03-18T16:52:15","modified_gmt":"2002-03-18T23:52:15","slug":"the-anglosphere-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/18\/the-anglosphere-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anglosphere Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— This links to the complete text of Owen Harries’ article The Anglosphere Illusion<\/a> from The National Interest cited below. Here’s a teaser:<\/p>\n

\nToday, a few thoughtful and eloquent individuals–among them Robert Conquest, writing in the pages of this magazine, and John O’Sullivan in various journals–have been making the case for an English-speaking political union. The argument is that the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and a few other smaller entities have so much in common in terms of political culture, values and institutions that they should draw together and enter into some sort of formal arrangement to act in concert–to create, that is, what some are now referring to as a political “Anglosphere.”
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Now this line of argument almost exactly replicates one advanced by a group of highly intelligent, well-educated and well-connected young men at the beginning of the last century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So this old saw has been circulated before, but without the trendy dressing-up with “memes” and “networks.” See “Toward an English-Speaking Union”<\/a> by Robert Conquest and “The Anglosphere Project”<\/a> by John Lloyd.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— This links to the complete text of Owen Harries’ article The Anglosphere Illusion from The National Interest cited below. Here’s a teaser: Today, a few thoughtful and eloquent individuals–among them Robert Conquest, writing in the pages of this magazine, and John O’Sullivan in various journals–have been making the case for an English-speaking political union. … Continue reading “The Anglosphere Illusion”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-5x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}