The Cultural Contradictions of Multiculturalism
British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have all renounced state-sponsored multiculturalism in recent months. But the absence of what Cameron called "muscular liberalism" is most apparent in European civil society.
STOCKHOLM – State-sponsored multiculturalism has failed. That proclamation by British Prime Minister David Cameron, following hard on the heels of similar renunciations of multiculturalism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, suggests that a page is being turned in European society. But is it?