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Giving away the farm. Why?
A frequent preoccupation of our ilk (TOO) is why Europeans and N. Americans of Euro stock have so easily allowed Europe and N. America to be invaded by so many immigrants from around the world. After all, it’s not as though they first sent armies to conquer us, à la Genghis Khan. The Indians were […]
Diversity in Outremont
Here in Outremont, a borough of Montreal, things are heating up for yet another episode of “Purim” during which our thousands of Hassidic Jews have a bang-up party with adults getting totally smashed and very noisy, while the kids are supposed to go around to visit friends and relatives, all costumed in bizarre outfits, to […]
Review of Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson
Review of Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson (2011) London: Allen Lane. 402 pages. If you’ve ever found yourself saying, as I have, that your major political preoccupation is the salvaging of the best of “Western Civilization” [WC], you may then have been queried, “What is it? What aspect of WC is […]

Joyeux Noёl: The Beginnings of WWI and the Christmas Truce of 1914


