Sally Kohn: The Muslim population of France is substantial, but I don't really see Muslims like the Muslim population just rising up in some kind of war they would lose. She says Islam stands in this weird position where it's once seen as a flashpoint that will either save us or alarm us depending on our political position. Kohn: But then also wistfully regarded as maybe having more like cultural energy and traditional vigor than all of the innervated Western nations that is supposedly invading from within.
French police shot and killed Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old immigrant of Algerian and Moroccan descent with a long history of criminal activity, sparking violent protest across the country. Is this France’s George Floyd moment—or something darker still? Stateside, the courts have been on a roll, preliminarily blocking the Biden administration from overtly colluding with social media companies and banning explicit race-based affirmative action in university admissions. The editors discuss the rolling civilizational crisis and, of course, remind you to read the damn site.