How the West Changed the World for the Better

Last week a white supremacist murdered 50 innocent Muslims in a brutal terror attack he livestreamed to Facebook. This emissary of evil then released a manifesto outlining his philosophy — and his goals. He wanted, he said, to tear apart civilization through racial and political conflict. His goal: to defend “the West.”

But what did he mean by “the West”? He meant racial supremacy of whites. He explicitly derided “the myth of the individual” and the “sovereignty of private property.” He spat at democracy. He scoffed at capitalism and tore into conservatism, which had surrendered to these concepts.