Charles Cooke visited some Parisian banlieues:
‘Having been brought in during the “30 glorious years” that followed the end of World War II to work the jobs that the natives didn’t want, a whole raft of people are now stuck in a country that does not quite know what to do with them — and, for that matter, in which many are actively hostile toward them. Indeed, for all their talk of equality, the French are astonishingly racist when compared both with Europe in general and with the unusually tolerant Anglosphere, and they have shown no signs of actually adopting the sort of idea-driven “melting pot” approach that has made the United States so successful.’
Maybe it’s better than somewhere in North Africa, but it’s not quite France, either (The British and The French have notorious ‘beef’).
***The Hudson Institute had a discussion with Walter Russell Mead, a French mayor, and others on the mood in France after the attack.
Yes, Edmund Burke opposed the French Revolution: Sunday Quotation: Edmund Burke On The French Revolution..
Medieval Times-Roaming The Gloom With Theory: Interview With Michel Hollebecq
Theodore Dalrymple At The City Journal: ‘Look Away From Europe’s Muslim Problem’
See Also: Why Lars Hedegaard Still Matters…Michael Moynihan At The Daily Beast: ‘The Repentant Radical’…
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David Thompson keeps an eye on the Guardianistas, particularly, George Monbiot, so you don’t have to:
‘Yes, dear readers. The odds are stacked against us and the situation is grim. Happily, however, “we” – that’s thee and me – now “find the glimmerings of an answer” in, among other things, “the sharing… of cars and appliances.” While yearning, as we are, for an “empathy revolution.” What, you didn’t know?’
Red Impulses Gone Green-Tim Worstall At The Adam Smith Institute On George Monbiot…From George Monbiot: ‘How Freedom Became Tyranny’