Without wishing to become the Comical Ali of the Right, I have a theory that the post-war period may one day be seen as the Left’s golden age and it is coming to an end. One major reason is that much of the liberal-Left’s cultural dominance is based on the standard social science model of human nature (that we are shaped nearly entirely by culture rather than genes). Reality has been undermining the SSSM for some time, but the structure appears solid from outside, partly because of the overwhelming dominance of progressives in academia and strong social taboos against contradicting it. People who defend the SSSM look moral – indeed it is influenced by Christianity – but at some point they will start to appear naïve or stupid. Another reason for my crackpot theory is what’s happening across the water. Not that water. We’ve become so used to Anglophone triumphalism over the years that we fail to see that, more than ever, Europe’s culture is intertwined and that increasingly British politics has more in common with that of France, Germany or the Netherlands than the US. And France, which appears so culturally knackered after the 20th century, may have one last outpouring to influence the world. Last week's Spectator carried a piece about Les nouveaux réactionnaires, French intellectuals who reject the culture of 1968 and the politics of multiculturalism. As Patrick Marnham writes: