Covid-19 has led to worldwide economic disaster. The virus’s originator – China – will be the only major economy to do well in 2020. Douglas Murray, writing in The Spectator US, thinks that because the Communist Part of China has done so much damage, it’s only fair that China disburse global reparations.

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.


