As G.K. Chesterton alleged, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” Damien Thompson, writing in Spectator U.S., wonders if the neo-Puritanism of Kamala Harris isn’t a modern iteration of the anti-Catholicism of the Godly Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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.


