The anonymous proprietor of The Brawl Street Journal Substack writes that the recent appointment to Germany’s Constitutional Court of a follower of Communist revolutionary Antonio Gramsci who believes that nature can hold human rights and that protest movements might supersede elected parliaments as agents of change, plus a recent constitutional amendment imposing specific climate policy goals on elected lawmakers, spell trouble for Europe’s supposedly strongest economy and largest democracy.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


