“Turkey’s Islamists want to restore their country’s leading position in the Muslim world, in a sharp turn away from the country’s previous Western orientation (as well as its military alliance with Israel). For Germany, though, the revived arrogance of the Anatolian backwaters represents a problem,” writes David P. Goldman in Germany’s Multicultural Failure , today’s “On the Square” article. And now Germany’s chancellor has said so in public.
And while you’re reading this one, in case you didn’t see the previous articles:
R. R. Reno’s The Bohemian Mystique .
George Weigel’s Papal Humor .
Joe Carter’s For the Bible Tells Me So .
Elizabeth Scalia’s The Credentialed Gentry and the Unpersuaded Yahoos .
David Mills’ No Mere Christianity .
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