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David Warren, Canada's sobering yin to Mark Steyn's raging yang, has a must-read piece on what amounts to the closing of the Western mind. Truth is, it's been closing for a good, long while. But from Canada's politically correct witch-hunts in the name of "human rights" to the dis-inviting of Pope Benedict XVI from an Italian university over Galileo, Warren perceives a disturbing acceleration.

Quoth Warren: "This is a huge issue that can only be discussed in one tiny aspect at a time, but must be discussed, increasingly, under the noses of the commissars, and in spite of their heavy breathing."