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Ominous: The Lights Go Out on the Eiffel Tower

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Ominous: The Lights Go Out on the Eiffel Tower
This photograph shows the sun sets on the Eiffel Tower and the Champ de Mars in Paris on April 24, 2022. Julien de Rosa/AFP via Getty Images
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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The Paris city council, on the encouragement of the government of Emmanuel Macron, has made the shocking decision to turn off the lights to the Eiffel Tower at 11:45 p.m. and leave them off all night, thus robbing the city of its most iconic and beautiful symbol of peace, prosperity, and industrial civilization.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]
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