The Crisis in France

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"It definitely seems as though they're in a crisis with the restrictions on social media," he says. "I saw a French police officer saying this isn't a riot because they're actually joined to kill us." The colonial era in France has just taken on this status of like, you know, no matter how bad you say it is, it's worse,. He adds: "No amount of bloodletting that would be enough to supposedly pay for the ravages of colonialist rule"

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.