English as the Global Language

"In the same way that American power creates asymmetrical geopolitical and economic relationships with certain parts of the world, so too does the reliance on English as an international lingua franca engender cultural asymmetries with non-anglophone cultures," writes Dissent Magazine's Paul Cohen — The Rise and Fall of the American Linguistic Empire.

The blurb tells us the author "is an associate professor of history at the University of Toronto currently working on a book-length study of the invention of French as a national language in early modern France." Surely the parallels between the nationalist Jacobins of his research and the globalist Neoconservatives decried in his article were not lost on the author.