Daniel J. Mahoney in the American Mind boldly predicts that with his magnificent Second Inaugural Address, Donald Trump is headed for greatness. The centrepiece, writes Mahoney, is the new President’s full-throated, across-the-board campaign to drive out ideological leftism, “a creed based on an unholy ideological trinity: borderless globalism, environmental eschatology and puritan wokery” including “racist ‘anti-racism’.”
“Papers, please!” Real Borders Make a Comeback in the EU
The 1985 “Schengen” agreement was hailed as the gateway to an eternal utopia of open borders throughout a Europe of 29 countries and 450 million people. Noting the rising number of countries defying EU regulations and restoring national border controls, Lauren Smith in The European Conservative wonders whether the whole Schengen experiment is unravelling under the stresses of uncontrolled illegal migration, crime and social decay.