Don’t Erase the Anglo-Saxons

It doesn’t require a gauzily romantic view of the Anglo-Saxons to conclude that they deserve better than today’s self-loathing Anglo-Saxonists.

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Bronze statue of King Alfred the Great in Hampshire, England, 2013.

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It’s official. The Anglo-Saxons are getting canceled.

The move comes more than 1,000 years too late for the previously ascendant Romano-British who couldn’t resist these Germanic peoples who showed up on the shores of England beginning in the fifth century, but surely, they would appreciate the gesture.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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