After the suicide of the West

Roger Kimball's introduction to The New Criterion symposium, "The real culture war,"

The large issue here is one that has bedeviled liberal societies ever since there were liberal societies: namely, that in attempting to create the maximally tolerant society, we also give scope to those who would prefer to create the maximally intolerant society.

The symposium also includes:

It's the demography, stupid by Mark Steyn

So you're nice to gays and the Inuit? Big deal. Anyone can be tolerant of fellows like that, but tolerance of intolerance gives an even more intense frisson of pleasure to the multiculti masochists.

Limits to democracy by Roger Scruton

The lesson of the French, Russian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Cambodian revolutions, of the English civil war, and countless other depressing episodes is that the true default position of mankind--the position to which all communities revert, when institutions crumble--is tyranny. Democracy is the last stage of a long process of attrition, a steady wearing down of the claims of personal charisma, creedal authority, and dynastic right, to the point where the great discovery can be made: the discovery that it is we ourselves who are running the show.

The corruption of history by Keith Windschuttle

To treat the modern history of the United States or any other Western country as a story of a struggle against oppression by identity groups is to falsify it.

Targeted jihad in the Netherlands by Douglas Murray

If we are going to take our rights away in tandem we are going to be in trouble. Like a loaded game of strip-poker, our opponents have come to this party swathed in countless layers of protective garments, while we have committed to this game at the very moment in our history in which our garments are fewest.