In The Wall Street Journal, Konrad Putzier details the City of St. Louis’s catastrophic “doom loop” of rising crime, fleeing businesses, emptying buildings and worsening decay. The once-vibrant central business district is largely boarded up and the city saw the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities. The halting half-measures Putzier reports on are almost certainly destined to fail.

Palestinian Culture: Unique in its Own Destructive Way
Although the Palestinian Authority enjoys an array of cultural departments and programs, A.J. Caschetta in Jewish World Review finds that all of it – art, education, literature, poetry, music, education and film – is oriented to two goals: the vilification of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Caschetta notes this is in sharp contrast to Arab and Muslim traditions, which include myriad aesthetically normal cultural works. Palestinianism, Caschetta finds, is “a very sick culture”, driven by resentment and fuelled by hate.


