[Charles] Manson wanted to start a race war. Nobody said he was leading some sort of charge about white supremacy.

So-called "progressives" actively wage war on progress. . . . Ultimately, progressives are at war with mass prosperity.

For states in demographic decline with ever more lavish social programs, the question is a simple one: Can they get real? Can they grow up before they grow old? If not, then they'll end their days in societies dominated by people with a very different worldview.

Her Majesty's government is engaging not merely in Orwellian Newspeak but in self-defeating Orwellian Newspeak. The broader message it sends is that ours is a weak culture so unconfident and insecure that if you bomb us and kill us our first urge is to find a way to flatter and apologize to you.

To expect the government to save you is to be a bystander in your own fate.

A big chunk of Western civilization, consciously or otherwise, has given the impression that it's dying to surrender to somebody, anybody. Reasonably enough, Islam figures: Hey, why not us?

But a society that has nothing to die for has nothing to live for . . .