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Five years ago in 2021 a leftist Canadian journalist by the name of Duncan Kinney reported on the defacement of a statue. Here is the first paragraph of his report as it appeared in his Progress Report story, "Nazi collaborator monuments in Edmonton defaced with red paint and words 'Actual Nazi' and “Nazi Monument.”Edmonton's statue of Roman Shukhevych, an infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, has once again been defaced with red paint. This time, a second local monument—a memorial honouring the 14th Waffen SS Division—was targeted as well.Although his periodical, Progress Report, is a far left publication, to its credit that...

A recent obsession in the drawing rooms and salons of Europe is the fact that a plurality of Americans (22%) cited "moral values" as their main reason for going to the polls. To civilized Europeans, the culture wars — God, gays and guns — are the most risible bit of American politics. Ever since 1945, European elites have preferred their politics to be technocratic — mainly managing capitalism for the common good, rather than tackling private issues of faith and morality. This is partly because Europeans are less passionate about religion. Only one in 10 French people says religion plays...