[Opinion] The Leopard holds a warning for Europe

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The Leopard holds a warning for Europe

The great unification processes of the late 19th century inspired some of the world’s most famous authors. In 1886, Henry James explored the triangular relationship between a Confederate War veteran from Mississippi and two New England feminist abolitionists in The Bostonians. Fifteen years later, Thomas Mann’s Buddenbrooks chronicled not only the downfall of a Hanseatic merchant family, but also the enduring chasm between north and south in Ger…