[Comment] Offline: World war—is it too late?

As you drive out of Geneva towards the airport, along the Rue de Lausanne, you pass a long, flat, ochre-brick building lying between the road and the lake: the World Trade Organization. Fenced off with formidable security, the headquarters of a body charged with administering a rules-based international trade order does not exude welcoming warmth. But it does give a hint of humanity by naming itself on the pillars erected around the building—the Centre William Rappard. Who was William Rappard? He was born in New York in 1883, but moved to Switzerland when he was 17 years old.