Nancy Pelosi wants an inquiry into the January 6 riots in Washington, D.C. Roger Kimball concurs. In Spectator US, Kimball argues that such an exercise must address the discrepancies between media coverage of the Capitol Hill riot and their virtual silence during last summer’s “mostly peaceful” burning and looting of American cities.

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.


