https://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2013/01/13/notes-from-atlantis/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 15:36:02 -0400<![CDATA[Last week, we linked to Sarah Hoyt’s essay on the resilience of cultural memes from the immediate aftermath of WWI that have stayed permanently entrenched in the left’s collective thinking. Since she wrote that she’s currently fascinated by the British interwar-era, I sent her a link to the episode of the early 1970s Thames television series The World At War that focused on the British home front during WWII. As I mentioned in a post from the day after Christmas, if you want to see Britain’s welfare state being formed, and its healthcare nationalized and socialized, even as England was busy pulverizing a giant welfare state with plenty of national socialism of its own, it’s an interesting segment &#8212; probably more so to an American viewer than a British one.]]>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 23:59:24 -0500<![CDATA[Ed Driscoll]]>https://pjmedia.com/ed-driscoll/2013/01/13/notes-from-atlantis-n256385