My new column in Taki’s Magazine offers a different perspective on the punching up / punching down paradigm that dominates current discourse:

Indeed, that these Muslim atrocities in Europe are being carried out by people who don’t deserve to be allowed into the countries they victimize is particularly appalling. To be preyed upon by those stronger than you is bad enough; but to allow your artists and children to be slaughtered and defiled by barely organized foreigners who could be kept out by simple acts of national self-respect is far more shameful.