He denounced meaningless elite sloganeering only to partake in just that

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The talk of the country today is Prime Minister Mark Carney’s state-of-the-globe stemwinder delivered to the World Economic Forum in Davos Tuesday. I think even the most generous critic would have to admit that this is partly a campaign speech meant for a Canadian audience: the PM is harvesting his globalist bona fides, and giving a somewhat convincing appearance of deep erudition — of being the kind of person who can create a sensation in Davos by means of ideas, rather than good looks and zany outfits.

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At first glance the speech seems like a startling renunciation of 20th-century (Canadian) Liberal doctrines about soft power. Carney has captured a mood we are all legitimately feeling in the presence of a warmongering Russia and a Napoleonized America: namely, that the world’s states are undergoing a reversion towards Hobbesian anarchy, and that........

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