The global triumph of Anglo-Saxon culture is manifested in the World Cup, where the main heretics about the appeal of an English game, soccer, are other Anglo countries, such as America, Canada, and Australia, who have their own games.
Of course, cultural hegemony doesn’t ensure political or economic power — Greek cultural hegemony continued for centuries after Rome conquered Greece.
In the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks writes in “America First?” about the dominance of English-language literature in the 21st Century:
Americans do not read enough foreign fiction. The accusation is made by Aleksander Hemon in his anthology Best European Fiction 2010, and again by Edith Grossman, celebrated translator of Don Quixote, as well as many other Spanish works,...