The world order is not merely shifting — it is inverting. The political coalitions, military alliances, moral standards, and civic habits that governed the last eighty years are dissolving simultaneously. Germany and Japan re-arm. Right-wing parties court working-class voters once owned by the left. Technology accelerates faster than our ethical grammar can follow. Beauty, truth, and goodness become matters of personal taste. And courage — that oldest of virtues — grows scarce precisely when it is most needed. The central question of this decade is not what is changing, but whether we have the character to meet it.
