"The European Dream" is an excerpt from Jeremy Rifkin's latest, at Utne.com. Rifkin only mentions in passing that America's great and dangerous experiment with democracy began as the actualization of European Enlightenment thought, that historically America's idealistic legacy--along with a whole lot else--is in fact of European origin . . . but I do not think that the American Experiment has much to do with what people, whether cynically or optimistically, whether American or not, have come to think of as the American Dream. Is America still a great country? Well we may all have a chance to find out in a week.