In Unherd, Joel Kotkin dissects the critical New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races in last week’s U.S. off-year elections. Kotkin theorizes that Republican contenders found their path to victory in the post-Trump era with a strong stand against radical racialism in schools, a defence of public safety and a focus on the economy.

Catalyst for Civilizational Collapse
There’s no longer any doubt, writes Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill: the radical left, “keffiyeh-adorned lowlifes”, Islamofascists and the Green Party of England all want the same thing. Not “to end the war in Gaza but to end Israel.” Their behaviour shows they actually enjoy Jewish suffering. If anti-Semites get their way, O’Neill warns, “7 October [will] look like a tea party.” And as Hannah Arendt famously warned, generalized Jew-hatred becomes the catalyst for civilizational ruin.
For more on this topic, check this C2C article by Lynne Cohen.


