The United States, a nation once thought automatically prosperous, is suddenly thrown back on its essentials. Although the current unrest appears to be about race, Joel Kotkin argues in The American Mind they are more rooted in class. America, he says, has produced young, growing and multi-racial class of neo-serfs with few economic prospects and little hope.

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.


