National Review editor Rich Lowry puts it nicely: The same clever people who created the single European currency want to move further toward a single European government.  So Lowry wrote in an article appearing at National Review Online yesterday.  Lowry bolsters his argument, citing among other efforts Europe's ruling class deposing prime ministers in Italy and Greece in favor of a European Central Bank veep and a former E.U. commissioner.  Lowry might have added that in scuttling the Greek prime minister, European elites also nixed a referendum in Greece on E.U. dictated financial terms.  But what was most intriguing in Lowry's article was his reference to the notion of "illiberal democracy."  Here's the passage: A lurch into a tighter union will represent the birth of a new regime in Europe, what John Fonte, author of the book Sovereignty or Submission, calls post-democracy. Time magazine columnist Fareed Zakaria coined the phrase...(Read Full Post)