Thomas O’Reilly in The European Conservative reports on the growing momentum of farmers from across Europe in protesting the EU’s technocracy, “Green Deal” overregulation and cheap agricultural imports – which are all devastating Europe’s food producers. O’Reilly’s on-the-scene observations of well-meaning farmers fighting for their livelihood don’t square with the media’s portrayal of them as right-wing extremists.
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.