Andrew Carico in the American Mind charts the rise of labels “leader” and “leadership,” terms embraced by the likes of Mussolini and Hitler. Today, leadership positions are often handed out based on minority status, creating a contemporary “artificial aristocracy.” Carico suggests this dangerous path can be sidestepped through two – admittedly difficult – initial steps.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
