Reflections from France: The beauty of Paris forces one to confront what is truly at stake in our civilizational struggle. If a people can watch a city like this decay without resistance, then nothing they claim to value can be taken seriously. And yet people will cry out when they feel wronged by their God, while neglecting the small, immediate beauties entrusted to them. Why, then, would God care for a small human? They demand justice in the abstract but fail in their duty to the concrete. Respect for what is good and beautiful must be imposed, first within the individual, and then within the culture. Only then can the human soul attain freedom, bounded and formed by the discipline of a worthy culture.