Robert Nicholson in Providence recounts his time spent with friends in Israel near the Lebanese border and the country’s long and fruitless efforts at making peace with neighbouring terrorist organizations. As missiles fly over head, Nicholson queries his female host about the long game. “‘How will this end?’ I asked her. ‘We destroy Hezbollah—it’s the only way. These people only understand power’,” is her pragmatic response.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
