It's harder to ignore the elephant in the living room when the elephant is setting fire to it. The elephant in France -- whose name begins with the dreaded M-word journalists dare not mention -- hasn't been allowed in the living room. He's been locked in the shed out back. This gives liberals an excuse to blame the rioting in France -- which has finally died down after two weeks -- on the standard liberal villains, poverty and racism. But if racism is a cause of the rioting, poverty isn't. As Theodore Dalrymple noted in a prescient article in the...