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The Strange Disappearance of the Right-Wing Pundit

If you flick through current affairs programming, you’ll find one misfit after another, pushing the most radical Left thought of the moment.

Mario Laghos —

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London and Strasbourg: Destined for Divorce?

Signatories to the Convention must “abide by the final judgement of the court in any case to which they are parties.” Plans for an updated Bill of Rights offer no way around the fact that such rulings from Strasbourg have binding force in UK law.

Harrison Pitt —

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Spanish Government Manipulating Economic Statistics

While the INE showed a Spanish economy that started to slow at the end of 2021, the government has maintained that the recovery continues at a substantial rate. This move intensifies a pattern of the current government to control, or attempt to control, independent institutions.

Bridget Ryder —

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Sanctions Force Russia Debt Payment Default

The default has been reported as “mostly symbolic” of “the worst economic contraction” in Russia in many years; Russian President Vladimir Putin has a different account of the Russian economy.

Sven R. Larson —

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Austria Abolishes Mandatory Vaccination

Less than half a year after its introduction in February, the Austrian government has announced that the mandatory COVID vaccination will soon be a thing of the past. The opposition calls people to remain watchful though.

David Boos —

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EU Wants Brussels Friendly Schools

In keeping with the Conference on the Future of Europe, the EU seeks to take a lead in how children are educated about the EU, its history, and why it exists, and to develop an EU-wide and euro-centric approach to education.

Sven R. Larson —

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Macron Lectured Putin a Few Days Before Going to War

At the end of the discussion, Emmanuel Macron managed to extract from Vladimir Putin the principle of an international meeting. A few days later, the conflict broke out. The international meeting would never take place.

Hélène de Lauzun —

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NATO Summit Unlikely to Break Expansion Stalemate

One indication as to which way the negotiations are moving relies on whether or not the Swedish and Finnish representatives will be allowed to participate in the NATO proceedings without the right to vote, or be forced to wait outside.

Sven R. Larson —

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Commentary

How the Militant Left Uses Fear

A technique the Left uses to increase control through public anxiety is to “set multiple fires along the ridgeline.” The public notices that the flames are spreading. Which fire does one run to first? What must be sacrificed and allowed to burn?

Christopher J. Farrell —

Commentary

The French Right: Still Alive!

Never before has the national Right achieved such a result in France, to the point of surpassing the governmental Right. New perspectives are opening up for the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.

Hélène de Lauzun —

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Roe v. Wade and the Sacred Heart

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic should draw enormous encouragement from this decision, with the take-home lesson being that history need not be just a sequence of victories by the increasingly noxious Left.

Sebastian Morello —

Commentary

The Balkan War on Conservatism

Funded in part by the U.S. government, a coalition of seemingly respectable organizations has vowed to keep Orbán’s national conservatism from inspiring followers in the Western Balkans.

Sven R. Larson —

Commentary

The Bible as Hate Speech

To understand this case, it is helpful to read this passage carefully. It shows how counter-cultural the Bible can be for 21st century Westerners.

Todd Huizinga —

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Essay

Rewilding and the Future of Humankind

Restoring our proper relationship with the natural world, it must be asserted, does not entail a retreat from nature, but a renewed immersion in its mystery and a humble submission to its laws.

Sebastian Morello —

Essay

The Death of Roe v. Wade

How is it that the greatest of all democracies has been transfixed by abortion politics for decades? The answer is simple and unpopular: It is because there is still a battle being waged for the soul of America.

Jonathon Van Maren —

Essay

The Social Engineering Grimoire

We are subject to a host of techniques by which social control is exerted and through which traditional institutions are eroded. What follows is an attempt to catalogue the array of spells in the grimoire of our political elites.

Carlos Perona Calvete —

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The Long Slow Death of Hong Kong

While I agree with the aims and even admire the methods of the protesters of 2019 to 2020, it is likely that when China does assume full control of the Hong Kong territory, they will have made things worse.

Roger Watson —

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