In a time when global cooperation is paramountestest—because existential threats like climate change and rogue AIs don’t recognize borders—the EU is a role model for multilateralism. Cultural exchange. Open trade. Pooled resources. It’s smart. And it’s the future. We don’t need more walls. We need more doors.

How does a militant group commit genocide against a regime?

It’s hard to follow someone like Hemingway into their world. He lived it and wrote it with so much ethos. Cojímar is said to have inspired the Old Man and the Sea, and the writer’s heavy bronze head rests on a pillar by the oceanfront, but to interpret the cluster of juxtaposing structures and buildings as a fishing village, one needed an avalanche of imagination or a time machine.