Throughout the pandemic politicians and officials have appealed to data and “the science.” But employing the definite article (“the”) misled us into believing that scientific opinion, like mathematics, is certain, unambiguous, and in monolithic agreement. Writing in Just the News, Michael Fumento documents ten ways that public health officials got “the science” seriously wrong.

France is in the Crosshairs, but the Target is Western Civilization
Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty crystallizes the recent riots in France to a simple equation: “Whole generations have been taught and come to accept that Western civilization consists of slavery, exploitation, and massacre.” Tearing it all down – not merely reforming it – is therefore not just understandable but desirable. Dalrymple disposes of the delusional trope that these are “student” protests, noting the preponderance of Muslim migrants committing the mayhem.
For a luminous glimpse into the singular civilizational achievements the rioters would tear down, read this C2C article by Patrick Keeney.


