In The American Conservative, Dalrymple takes aim at the sloganeering spirit of our age, from a French town council’s call to “globalize solidarity” to the unctuous piety of an Oxfam shop window.
What of globalized solidarity? I can’t think of anything more depressing; thank goodness that it’s impossible. You might as well ask the lion to show solidarity with the gazelle or the crocodile with the gnu—simply because they share the same continent, Africa.