It is no exaggeration to say that the bookshop’s closure has been a loss not just for Paris but for the West. It is a betrayal of the intellect—and a reminder that this ultimately is a battle for cultural survival. The shop stood as a challenge to the homogenizing forces of globalism, to the intellectual conformity that stifles debate, to the erosion of the particular in favor of the universal. It was a library of resistance—a bulwark against forgetting.

The Left has chosen the way of censorship.

In stark contrast to the way Camus has been mis-portrayed by others, readers will encounter a heroic “committed opponent of conspiratorial thinking of all kinds.”

The implication of the postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge is that the teacher, at best, has nothing substantial to offer and, at worst, is engaged in some form of oppression of students. When school systems adopt the latter view, it is logical that the social status of teachers is eroded.