Brexit appears symptomatic of broader political changes worldwide, including rebellion against ceding political authority to international bodies. In Unherd, Robert Tombs writes that visions of a “sovereign Europe” have faded. “Like the old Austro-Hungarian empire,” Tombs observes, “the EU continues because it cannot be reformed or replaced.”
Like the Twitching of a Dissected Frog’s Legs
The second Trump Administration is succeeding magnificently in driving DEI/wokist policies and ideology out of the U.S. government and any organization receiving federal funds, writes Roger Kimball at American Greatness. From the FBI cutting ties to the extreme-left Southern Poverty Law Center to newly named Secretary of War Pete Hegseth declaring the U.S. military to be no place for “dudes in dresses”, Kimball proclaims – perhaps a tad prematurely – that DEI in government is dead but just doesn’t know it yet.