Two Bits from Europe.

It's a struggle out there. I have a friend married to a Belgian, so I get a few updates about the country. Did you know there are only just over 500 homeschooled children in Belgium? Paul Belien and wife have been doing their best, but the Belgian State's distrust of homeschoolers is startling, as their latest troubles prove.

Fjordman, who comes from... well it's fairly clear roughly where, meditates on the ideological origins of Europe's malaise in Gramsci. He takes a global view though, and his perspective ends up focussing on North America, as the grand ideological battle ground.