Joel Kotkin in Spiked reveals the reason for Democratic Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’ seemingly spontaneous shift in policies: ever-more Americans, he writes, are wearying of woke/“progressive”/DEI ideologies. Finally recognizing their plunge in popularity, Kotkin writes, Harris and her campaign are attempting – insincerely, of course – to distance themselves from their once-loudly proclaimed principles.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
