Opinion | Europe Is Aflame, and It’s Not Going to Stop (Gift Article)

Opinion | Europe Is Aflame, and It’s Not Going to Stop (Gift Article) f the nyt

Like I said, *generations* of futility 👇🏼

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/opinion/europe-protests-youth-france.html

Breathless, but also brainless. I'm constantly disappointed by Jäger's pieces. A bit of looting is not an insurrection, and the idea that LFI shut down the lycées, while popular with finger-pointing centrists, is silly.

The protests across Europe “appear as a wholly contemporary genre of unofficial politics,” Anton Jäger writes in a guest essay. “Resistant to political recuperation by either left or right, they express feelings of generational futility.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/o...

Europe Is Aflame, and It’s Not Going to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/o...

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(GIFT ARTICLE) The protests roiling the continent express feelings of generational futility. By Anton Jäger www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/o...

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Europe Is Aflame, and It’s Not Going to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/o... ☹️

www.nytimes.com/2026/10/29/o... Socialism turns ugly spurring anarchy and sense of futurelessness. Better not call AOC or BS.

Against a backdrop of declining growth rates, governments were caught between the barricade and the bond market, with no effective remedy in sight.