A simple formula. The Europeans like Jeremy Rifkin. And with good reason: he is practically the only person in the United States to glorify the "European model of society", which he feels is the model of the future, far preferable to the American model. I have to say that I wasn't overly impressed by him when I attended one of his performances (organised by the Greens of the European Parliament), because I felt that I detected a considerable dose of superficiality and a lack of rigour...