Regarding Europeans, the word that often comes to mind is "ennui" – the walking dead staggering among cathedrals and museums, members of once vibrant cultures with tired blood whose principal concern is how to spend four weeks of vacation a year. So it comes as a shock that European politics is beginning to matter again – to the extent that Eurocrats and the U.S. media are alarmed. Last week, Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party came within less than half a percentage point of being elected president of Austria, a largely symbolic post. In an alleged news story, The New...