Commentary
The great conflict within societies—mostly Western societies—has reached a new phase. It is now, perhaps, defined as strident authoritarianism versus nationalism, and it received a major impetus with the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.
Her passing meant that a great figure of stability was removed from many societies around the world, and there would be a rush to fill the gap with more temporal power.
It was not merely in Britain and its Commonwealth that the queen radiated stability. The United Kingdom, even when it was submerged within the European Union, still represented a calm, core competency that was a critical underpinning to alliances—and even to the United States’ sense of itself—and to a global sense of the era….