
Where to Invade Next
Michael Moore plants an American flag in one country after another, 'invading' not for resources but for ideas worth stealing. In Italy he sits with a couple who get eight weeks of paid vacation a year; in France he watches schoolchildren eat a multi-course lunch of real food, cheese course included; in Finland he tours a school system with no homework and no standardized testing that still outperforms America's. Slovenia offers free university tuition, Germany shows workers with seats on corporate boards, and Portugal walks him through drug decriminalization. Norway's low-security prisons and Tunisia's constitutional protections for women's rights get their own stops, and Iceland closes the tour with the bankers who avoided the 2008 collapse and the women who ran the one bank that survived it. Moore frames every stop the same way: find the policy, then reveal it originated as an American idea exported and improved elsewhere. The joke is the invasion premise; the argument underneath is that these aren't foreign fantasies but borrowed American ones.