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To the Anglosphere

A new issue of American, British and Canadian Studies Journal is out. Simon Chesterman (NUS): The Myth of Magna Carta: Or, How a Failed Peace Treaty with French Aristocrats Was Reinvented as the Foundation of English (and American) Liberty. Tom Hickey (Dublin City): The Republican Virtues of the “New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism”. Neil M. Richards (WUSTL) and Kirsty Hughes (Cambridge): The Atlantic Divide on Privacy and Speech. Robert E. Wright (Augustana): Devolution of the Republican Model of Anglo-American Corporate Governance. Kath Browne (Brighton): Contesting Anglo-American Privilege in the Production of Knowledge in Geographies of Sexualities and Genders. How American P.C. culture conquered Britain, too: The decades-long debate over the limits of free expression on U.S. campuses has jumped the Atlantic, and that has columnist Michael Kinsley reconsidering his Anglophilia. Walter Russell Mead on how the Left rises in the Anglosphere.

Inder Marwah reviews Empires Without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection by Jeanne Morefield. Dan Hannan on the miracle of the English-speaking peoples. English is not normal: No, English isn’t uniquely vibrant or mighty or adaptable — but it really is weirder than pretty much every other language. Last Man: France's amazing martial arts fantasy comic comes to the Anglosphere.