Matthew Continetti writing in the Washington Free Beacon: The last week has provided a sad but worthwhile opportunity to assess the global elite, the heads of state and government, the bankers and journalists and celebrities, as they worked overtime to preserve a veneer of progress and stability. From Athens to Beijing, D.C. to Vienna, the desire has been to avoid tough decisions, to prolong deliberation, to pretend as though dangerous emerging trends do not exist. To take action, to provoke, to choose, to commit, to fight, to admit reality would be far too disruptive, would cost too much, and would endanger the social positions our best and brightest have worked so mightily to attain. Better for them to wait things out. So begins one of the more thoughtful and incisive essays in recent memory.  As Continetti writes, Obama, Kerry, the EU, Greece, and the elites from Turtle Bay to Tehran are playing one gigantic game of "Let's Pretend": What we have in...(Read Full Post)