Our Exaggerated Demise

From Kevin Williamson at National Review, The World Keeps Not Ending: Tom Wolfe joked that “the dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe,” which wasn’t quite right: There’s Saudi Arabia, and China, and Burma . . ....

Identity Politics Goes Nuclear

The Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg used the metaphor of the golden goose to describe political movements. Some thought the one golden egg a day was not enough and demanded more.  They abused the goose to get more eggs. The goose eventually died. The technocrat...