Bruce Bawer: Submission in the Netherlands?
Ref: City Journal, Winter 2009, vol 19, no 1. Jan 22nd, 2009
“a court in the Netherlands—a nation once famous for being an oasis of free speech—has now decided to prosecute a member of the national legislature for speaking his mind. By doing so, it proves exactly what Wilders has argued all along: that fear and “sensitivity” to a religion of submission are destroying Dutch freedom.”
Robert Kagan: End of Dreams, Return of History
Ref: Policy Review, August and September 2007
Robert Kagan tells of how he thinks the end of history… isn’t.
“The years immediately following the end of the Cold War offered a tantalizing glimpse at a new kind of international order, with nations growing together or disappearing altogether, ideological conflicts melting away, cultures intermingling through increasingly free commerce and communications. But that was a mirage, the hopeful anticipation of a liberal, democratic world that wanted to believe the end of the Cold War did not end just one strategic and ideological conflict but all strategic and ideological conflict.”
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