“I want to affirm it as being very true, according to what can be seen in all the histories, that men can side with Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her warp but they cannot tear it apart.”
- Machiavelli [Discourses, II.29]
The European Parliamentary Elections on June 2nd unleashed a political earthquake across the continent. Though the “center held,” as far as the European Union is concerned, the ruling parties of some of Europe’s most important countries were humiliated. The biggest news of the night was when Emmanuel Macron, France’s distant and mercurial centrist leader who is often called “Jupiterian,” shocked the country- and the world- by announcing early Parliamentary elections. Though…
