[Cicero]

I usually like Spengler's stuff, but this time he's in over his head. It makes him sound like a snotty fool. Some sort of British anti-Catholic prejudice, maybe?

Sure, Socrates was an ironist. But he was also a philosopher, with Plato and Aristotle and the rest. Western philosophy up until Descartes is the best wisdom I know of.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

It's an interesting piece, so far as it broaches the seeming discontinuity between a continent that wants to resurrect old, almost defunct European languages, while at the same time encouraging-or at least condoning-the presence of millions of immigrants whose professed faith is diametrically opposed to Enlightenment values.