# Going Transatlantic by Peder Schaefer

A weekly newsletter on the politics, people, and policy linking both sides of the Atlantic.

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## [Who really benefits from America's tech boom?](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/is-europe-really-falling-behind-the)

_2026-05-31 · Peder Schaefer_

The great transatlantic economic debate of 2026 continues, this time over producers and users.

## [Is Europe really falling behind the United States?](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/the-great-transatlantic-economic)

_2026-05-26 · Peder Schaefer_

A primer on a fascinating debate over the strength of the U.S. and EU economies.

## [Macron warned Europe could die. But can it become a people?](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/europe-has-built-a-polity-can-it)

_2026-05-15 · Peder Schaefer_

Trying to strengthen the European Union before strengthening the European demos is putting the cart before the horse.

## [Tucker Carlson says Europe is an ally?](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/tucker-carlson-says-europe-is-an)

_2026-04-21 · Peder Schaefer_

The MAGA star's remarks in an interview with The Economist show the wildly diverging transatlantic orientations at the heart of the MAGA movement.

## [From MAGA to "Euromaximalism": The New Right goes transatlantic](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/the-eerie-similarities-between-america)

_2026-04-13 · Peder Schaefer_

Europe's young, mostly male New Right has plenty of similarities with America's New Right too.

## [Is Belgium the future of Europe?](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/why-belgium-is-the-future-of-europe)

_2026-03-16 · Peder Schaefer_

Europe's linguistic diversity means creating a common political and cultural demos is hard. Belgium — and in particular Brussels — might have the answer.

## [How risk appetite explains the differences between the U.S. and Europe](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/how-risk-appetite-explains-the-differences)

_2026-03-06 · Peder Schaefer_

In recent decades America's successes, as well as disasters, have been due to exceptional levels of risk-taking. Europe's gone a different path.

## [US Senate vs. European Parliament](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/is-the-european-parliament-the-greatest)

_2026-02-02 · Peder Schaefer_

The European Parliament is oft-derided as a second-bit player amongst the European institutions, but a close look shows it's more deliberative than American counterparts

## [How America came to culturally dominate Europe](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/the-roots-of-europes-confidence-problem)

_2026-01-26 · Peder Schaefer_

Dave Keating's new book The Owned Continent traces the roots of Europe's dependency on America, with a focus on how Europe's become a cultural colony

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## [Timothy Snyder thinks the EU can strengthen the nation](https://pederschaefer.substack.com/p/timothy-snyder-on-the-european-union)

_2026-01-17 · Peder Schaefer_

His reflections on American interventionism in Europe, national sovereignty, and freedom.