Spencer Klevin: We're accustomed to thinking of the shit hits the fan moment as animating prepper culture in the US. But part of the problem here is that even the really bad stuff seems to take forever to play itself out, he says. "If there's going to be movement of any decisive kind on this front, it's going to arise at the level of Europe as a whole"
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.