“In peacetime the British may have many faults,” said a fellow named Lord Gladwyn some years ago, “but so far an inferiority complex has not been one of them.”

Here in America, we may have a few hysterics, but we also aren’t scared to death of biotech food, fox hunting, or the right to bear arms. And don’t get me started on the royal family, which has perhaps been the source of more hysteria than any other single institution on the planet.