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  • Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?

    Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?0

    “I’ve known Xi Jinping for a long time. … He doesn’t have a democratic—with a small ‘d’—bone in his body,” said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president, and then he ambled on:          He’s one of the guys, like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, who thinks that autocracy is the

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  • Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’

    Author: We’re Now Living in an ‘Age of Anger’0

    According to the title of Pankaj Mishra’s latest book, we are now living in an “Age of Anger.” He writes: “[T]he current conflagration [in the world] has brought to the surface what Friedrich Nietzsche called ‘ressentiment’—‘a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts… what Hannah Arendt described as a ‘tremendous increase

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  • Author: The West is Paralyzed by Horror

    Author: The West is Paralyzed by Horror0

    Why has the West’s response to violence perpetrated by radical Muslims been rather lukewarm? Why do leaders keep insisting that Islam is a “religion of peace”?    These are the questions many Europeans and Americans are asking themselves, and noted economist and author David Goldman has an intriguing answer. According to Goldman, “The root of

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  • Author: Muslim Civilization is Actually in Decline

    Author: Muslim Civilization is Actually in Decline0

    • October 6, 2015

    Americans are treated to a lot of scare headlines regarding the growth of Islam. The latest, in Breitbart yesterday, is that “Arabic is [the] Fastest-Growing Language in USA.” In case you weren’t aware, the first sentence of the article reminds us that Arabic is the “language spoken in Muslim countries.” In the short-term, through immigration, Muslims

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  • Author: ‘Modern Civilization Is A Universal Conspiracy Against All Interior Life’

    Author: ‘Modern Civilization Is A Universal Conspiracy Against All Interior Life’2

    I came across a quote on Facebook the other day whose profundity struck me and several others. Here it is: “You understand absolutely nothing about modern civilization unless you first admit that it is a universal conspiracy against all interior life.” The quote comes from the French Catholic author Georges Bernanos (1888-1948). He is best known

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  • Author Warns: ‘The power of Islam may at any moment re-arise’

    Author Warns: ‘The power of Islam may at any moment re-arise’1

    Today there are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world, and Islam will supposedly supplant Christianity as the world’s largest religion before this century is complete. These facts have many in the Western world frightened. At the same time, the Muslim world does not currently represent a united military threat to the Western world. The foreign

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