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Taxpayers have long funded scientific research at elite universities and provided grants for poor students. In return, these universities did world-changing research. That deal has fuelled American military and economic power. It has contributed to almost every technological leap, from the internet to mRNA vaccines. It has made America a magnet for talented, ambitious people. And it is now being
rewritten by Donald Trump.
Europe is not as innovative as America. It has relatively few trillion-dollar enterprises. On the other hand, it has no tech executives boasting on social media of feeding bits of the state “into the wood chipper”.
Our Charlemagne columnist
explains why Europe these days looks like a better exemplar of American values than America does. | 
