France’s Parliamentary Election Ruins Macron’s Coronation – OpEd

By John C. Hulsman*

As a historian, I have always found the end of Percy Shelley’s magnificent poem “Ozymandias” almost unbearably moving as it makes plain that even towering greatness has a finite shelf life. Shelley’s conclusion goes like this:

“And on the pedestal, these words appear:

‘My name is...