A Way to Vanquish Mob Rule Little Rock, Arkansas, 1957 – when white mobs tried to prevent black students from safely attending school. Jason L. Riley reminds readers in the WSJ, President Dwight Eisenhower “decided to do something about the mob defying the Brown ruling.” In a prime-time television address, the president explained that “demagogic […]
Worth Our Anger
Progress, Maybe Hamas spent a year planning the 7 October massacre. As Jim Geraghty notes in NRO, the Iranians were right there alongside them, providing “military training and logistical help as well as tens of millions of dollars for weapons.” What’s worth our anger? Harvard seems to lack the conviction to rein in antisemitism on campus […]
Merkel’s Onerous Legacy: Germany Swamped by Muslims
At The American Conservative, Peter Van Buren explains the problem facing Germans who awoke one day to find themselves surrounded by Muslim immigrants who don’t speak German, rely heavily on state welfare, and appear to be resisting assimilation. He writes (abridged): The German neighborhood of Marzahn is way out of town, near the end of […]
Is Islam Inferior to Christianity?
Originally posted on July 25, 2017. At The American Conservative, Rod Dreher pokes some holes in the rubric used by London’s police force to determine if a person is “Islamophobic.” I believe that the Islamic religion is inferior to Christianity because it is not true, in my view…. If people conclude that Islam is engaged […]
Vapid Platitudes as the World Reels in Horror
As the world reels with horror from the latest terrorist attack in Manchester, killing 22, many of whom are children, the vapid platitudes are pouring out of the mouths of politicians and the press. Don’t change anything. Don’t overreact. Don’t fear Islam or immigration. “There’s only one way Britain should respond to attacks such as […]
American Exceptionalism Turns into an Exceptional Handicap
The West is making a mistake with its obsession with terror. A bigger threat is Dawa and the ideology behind it, warns Ayaan Hirsi Ali (I’ve written about Hirsi’s noble efforts before, such as here, and here), a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. Ms. Hirsi Ali implores the West to look at Islam with […]
