During his second visit to the White House, Prime Minister Mark Carney called Donald Trump ‘a transformative president’ as he sought relief from punishing U.S. tariffs.

If anyone doubts that sycophancy is having a defining moment in the history of Western civilization, get a load of this: even lowly writers are being falsely flattered. Scammers are flooding inboxes with AI-generated notes of praise from so-called readers in an effort to lure the scribblers into identity-theft scams. “You weren’t just writing about history,” one note claimed: “you were in the room where history happened .” It’s a measure of the dilapidated state of the average writer’s ego that the ruse has been successful.

Then there was the spectacle this week of Mark Carney seated at the right hand of the Preside

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