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September 5, 2018|Charlie Hebdo, Gilles Kepel, Jihad, Terror in France

The Crumbling of French Culture

by Guillaume de Thieulloy|

Statue symbolizing Universal Suffrage, at the Place de La Republique in Paris, adorned by mourners after the Charlie Hebdo terror attack of January 2015. (image: David Djordjevic Studio, shutterstock.com)
The Frenchmen (and women) who hate France: in their understanding, it’s the country of the Crusaders.

January 25, 2016|Charlie Hebdo, Islam, laicite, Pierre Manent, Regensburg Address, Situation de la France

Between Euro-Impotence and Jihadism

by Samuel Gregg|

Dramatic events often focus our minds on the dilemmas we would prefer to ignore. In writing Situation de la France to describe the predicament facing his native country and much of Western Europe, the French conservative philosopher Pierre Manent is unlikely to have anticipated the slaughter of 130 people in Paris by seven ISIS-aligned Muslims in November. But the timing of Manent’s short book on the political challenges associated with the presence of approximately 4.7 million Muslims in France (about 7.5 percent of its population) could not be more providential. In a nation’s life, there are moments that decisively change its…

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October 22, 2015|Andrew McCarthy, Benghazi, Charlie Hebdo, Gerard Biard, Islam and Free Speech, Islamists, President Erdogan, Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Taking the Measure of the West

by David F. Forte|

Muhammad was a great man, at least as history traditionally defines greatness. Sure, there are revisionist academics who suggest that he was, more or less, a created figure who arose out of the politics and culture of northern Arabia, but we can, and perforce must as a practical matter, accept the received picture of him as affirmed by Islamic history. As such, he reformed, rechanneled, and revolutionized the ancient and primitive culture of Arabia to set it on course to become one of the world’s great civilizations.

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January 16, 2015|Anti-Semitism, Charlie Hebdo, Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, Hamas, Manuel Valls, Tim Wilcox

“If 100,000 Jews Leave, France Will No Longer Be France.”

by Charlie Laderman, Brendan Simms|

Interior of the Grand Synagogue of Paris
In France and around the world, the fight can only be won by challenging the ideology that justifies the deliberate killing of innocent civilians.

January 8, 2015|Charlie Hebdo, Flemming Rose, Islam, Mohammed Cartoons, Sharia, The Tyranny of Silence

What is the Future for a Post-Liberal Europe?

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

Law and Liberty’s podcast with Danish journalist Flemming Rose, publisher of the 2005 Muhammed cartoons in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten, took place in November. The occasion of our interview was the publication by the Cato Institute of Rose’s book The Tyranny of Silence, about the consequences he experienced after the cartoons were released. Rose’s voice is obviously powerful given what he endured, but he is also incredibly thoughtful on Europe’s post-liberal order. Europe, he says, now struggles to understand what it is about save for its thin belief in transnational EU governance and a nearly blinding commitment to egalitarianism, itself a contributing factor to the rise of…

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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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