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Heirs to Fortuyn?

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A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.

Photo courtesy WateenZooi dot nl

Heirs to Fortuyn?
City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer
When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much
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Written by greenfloyd

April 24, 2009 at 3:18 am