Europe’s Anti-Atomists

From the Continent erik v. kuehnelt-leddihn

We are living, quite obviously, in an irrational age, and our politics are all too often dictated by emotional caprice, naïve sentimentality, and coarse ideology. Voters are encouraged to voice their opinions regardless of their level of knowledge and experience, and so in Western Europe we can expect periodic outbreaks of popular protest against parliamentary decisions—most recently, over the hotly debated issue of nuclear power plants.