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Europe has always been a dark place and it hasn't changed at all.

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Lebanon and Iraq are the two most sectarian countries in the Arab world.

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Every country in the world has a national anthem... It's perfectly normal.

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No more do I want to hear that Europeans are more sophisticated than Americans.

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To paraphrase Leon Trotsky, you may not be interested in war but war is interested in you.

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Europe has never been fertile ground for libertarians. It is not Montana, and it isn't Wyoming.

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Come on. China is autocratic. Taiwan is democratic. China is the big China. Taiwan is the good China.

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Did somebody have a nice little chat about the 2 billion dollars in aid money we give Egypt every year?

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You might think today's identitarians champion this sort of thing, but they don't. On the contrary, they hate it.

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A black man named Tim Scott was just elected senator in a state-wide race in South Carolina, and he's a Republican.

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What will become of Northern Ireland? It can't be neatly partitioned any more than Baghdad can be neatly partitioned.

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It's astonishing. It's probably the most pro-American place in the world. Certainly the most pro-American place I've ever been.

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With legal same-sex marriage sweeping both Europe and North America, one can safely say the West has never been less homophobic.

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New Man is a utopian fantasy. Humans will only work long and hard hours for no pay if they're forced; hence Cuba's repressive political system.

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In 2005, Beirut looked and felt like a Middle Eastern version of Berlin in 1989... It turned out, Beirut was really more like Budapest in 1956.

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In Europe the lunatic fringe is going mainstream. Maddening as this is, I really do worry for them. I'm beginning to think something terrible might happen over there.

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Sexual assault in public is so pervasive in Egypt that the authorities ban men from some cars on the subway so women can get to work in the morning without being mauled.

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The Iranian regime murdered its way into power and tortures and murders to keep itself in power. It doesn't care about human rights any more than Kim Jong-un of North Korea.

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The general public hates modern art. In an online poll, The Escapist magazine asked if modern art even qualifies as art in the first place. Only one person in five said that it does.

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People in Scotland don't enjoy having decisions made for them in England any more than the English like having decisions made for them in Belgium. Nationalism in Britain cut both ways.

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The French gun ban accomplished a grand total of jack squat last year when ISIS hit Paris. And Mohammad Atta's crew killed thousands of people on 9/11 armed with nothing but box cutters.

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Indeed. The identitarians on the so-called alt-Right are just as committed to overthrowing the liberal order as those on the far-Left. What's happening in the art world is merely a symptom.

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The trouble is that Ahmari had a hard time finding anything in London's art scene created by anyone who wasn't obsessed with identity politics or who cared a whit for aesthetics and beauty.

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Nearly all Che's victims were Cuban. Would Americans love a foreign implant who murdered thousands, forced thousands more into slavery, and drove more than a million to exile? Of course not.

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