Parents across England rejoiced as schools reopened this week. While Sam Leith and his wife did their best to home-school their offspring, in Unherd, Leith acknowledges a real sadness born of knowing that it was anything but ideal and that the government-caused pandemic disruption will affect his children for many years.

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.


