Many past cultures left no written record, so their orally transmitted creation myths are now increasingly misused to trump scientific evidence such as DNA analysis. In Quillette, Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer tell how disagreeing with the literal interpretation of animistic myths is met with predictable cries of “racism” and “white privilege.”

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


