As the pandemic continues its global arc, the Chinese Communist Party is desperately trying to spin the narrative and hide its malfeasance. Jim Geraghty, writing in National Review, provides a detailed time-line of the corrupt oligarchy’s duplicity – on which the party’s emphatic insistence that human transmission was unproven is just one sorry example.

France is in the Crosshairs, but the Target is Western Civilization
Theodore Dalrymple in Law & Liberty crystallizes the recent riots in France to a simple equation: “Whole generations have been taught and come to accept that Western civilization consists of slavery, exploitation, and massacre.” Tearing it all down – not merely reforming it – is therefore not just understandable but desirable. Dalrymple disposes of the delusional trope that these are “student” protests, noting the preponderance of Muslim migrants committing the mayhem.
For a luminous glimpse into the singular civilizational achievements the rioters would tear down, read this C2C article by Patrick Keeney.


