French President Emmanuel Macron is rejecting the mainly American “woke” notion that all history is to be viewed through the lens of race. Such an agenda “Gnaws at national unity and attacks France’s intellectual and cultural heritage.” In the New York Post, Glenn H. Reynolds gives the dapper Frenchman a thumb’s-up.

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.


