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.
Inhuman for Criminals, the Luck of the Draw for You and Me
The EU may have banished the “‘inhuman,’ ‘degrading,’ and ‘irreversible’” death penalty for criminals, writes Frank Haviland in The European Conservative – but its member states’ soft-on-crime, easy-on-illegal-immigrants policies are making violent death an increasingly common fate for innocent Europeans. In a world gripped by barbarian forces, writes Haviland, it’s time for Great Britain to hold a national referendum on restoring an older form of justice.
