Victor Davis Hanson observes Middle America’s past-boiling-point attitude toward the self-entitled power of elite money, certifications, degrees and virtue signalling. Ordinary people, Hanson observes in American Greatness, have seen through the charade over the past decade as the elites comprehensively shredded their own aura of competence. Symbiotic coexistence is gone, replaced by mutual contempt.
In City Journal, Christopher F. Rufo unmasks the U.S. federal government’s prodigious spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Rufo details how a web of moralistically preening consulting firms have billed billions for things like training “on the brain science of inclusion” or “anti-racism analytics tools”, and how the DEI ideology – as bad as it always was – has degenerated into yet another money-grubbing racket.
Brendan O’Neill reports in Spiked on last week’s decision by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – something O’Neill regards as a direct threat against Israel’s right to defend itself. He also details the crass hypocrisy of Israel’s neighbours who despite having committed demonstrable atrocities and even genocide make a spectacle of demanding “justice”.
Harrison Pitt in The European Conservative shows how the UK’s recently elected Labour Party intends to crush farmers. Among other things, Keir Starmer’s government intends to implement a 20 percent inheritance tax on agricultural assets worth £1 million or more. Tallis details how this has caused widespread protest amongst British farmers who do not wish to lose their livelihoods.
In the wake of Amsterdam’s horrific “Jew hunt”, Rod Dreher reports in The European Conservative on the surrounding rise of violent crime in the Netherlands, describing the correlation between that phenomenon and growth in the country’s Muslim population. Dreher hopes that the U.S. Presidential election result will inspire Europeans to also free themselves from their “progressive” rulers.
In City Journal, Christopher F. Rufo unmasks the U.S. federal government’s prodigious spending on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Rufo details how a web of moralistically preening consulting firms have billed billions for things like training “on the brain science of inclusion” or “anti-racism analytics tools”, and how the DEI ideology – as bad as it always was – has degenerated into yet another money-grubbing racket.
Brendan O’Neill reports in Spiked on last week’s decision by the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – something O’Neill regards as a direct threat against Israel’s right to defend itself. He also details the crass hypocrisy of Israel’s neighbours who despite having committed demonstrable atrocities and even genocide make a spectacle of demanding “justice”.
Harrison Pitt in The European Conservative shows how the UK’s recently elected Labour Party intends to crush farmers. Among other things, Keir Starmer’s government intends to implement a 20 percent inheritance tax on agricultural assets worth £1 million or more. Tallis details how this has caused widespread protest amongst British farmers who do not wish to lose their livelihoods.
In the wake of Amsterdam’s horrific “Jew hunt”, Rod Dreher reports in The European Conservative on the surrounding rise of violent crime in the Netherlands, describing the correlation between that phenomenon and growth in the country’s Muslim population. Dreher hopes that the U.S. Presidential election result will inspire Europeans to also free themselves from their “progressive” rulers.
