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Last week, I discussed two articles criticizing the national conservative movement (if it's fair to call it that) and 'common good originalism.' The two articles appear in the current issue of The New Criterion, which is devoted in large part to a debate on the subject. In this post, I want to present two articles from the other side of the debate. They respond to the lead piece, by Kim
It is the great challenge (and paradox) of our time: Far from erasing identity claims, globalization reinforces them. From Spain to Myanmar to Trump's America, it must be confronted head-on.
Is This the End of French Intellectual Life? The country’s culture of argument has come under the sway of a more ideological, more identity-focused model imported from the United States. Credit...Matt Chase By Christopher Caldwell Mr. Caldwell is a contributing opinion writer and the author of “Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West” and “The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties.” March 5, 2021 At the end of last summer, Le Débat, France’s most prestigious intellectual review, accompanied its 40th-anniversary issue with a wholly unexpect...
Guillaume Faye, France's prophet of civil war by Blake Smith Print this article For a moment a few years ago, it seemed that an international movement of racists was emerging to threaten liberalism, as white nationalists in the United States allied with “Identitarians” in Europe. The far-right French writer Guillaume Faye, who died last year, was one of the main figures in this drama, and his ideas were the subject of worried analyses in venues of mainstream American opinion. After the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, commentators such...
12 . 16 . 20 Despite the collapse or erasure of Christian references in Europe, contemporary language has retained a certain number of expressions that everyone still understands, at least to some extent. I believe there is no one who doesn’t know (or at least intuit) that “the Good Samaritan” is someone who voluntarily aids someone who needs help, with this additional note: that he agrees to depart from his path, or to leave what he was doing, in order to care for someone unfortunate, when nothing obliges him to do so. It is therefore quite natural that Pope Francis gives the parable o...