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16 Years of Merkelism: A Retrospective

Having managed the country with the sole aim of keeping her ‘clientelist’ system in power for as long as possible, Angela Merkel is disappearing from the political scene—just as the first cracks in the German ‘ship of state’ are beginning to show.

David Engels —

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Dutch Parishes in Downward Spiral

While the Roman Catholic Church, numbering about 3.7 million, is still the largest denomination in the country, aging membership and secularization are now making themselves felt. Catholics actively involved in parish life are few—about 150,000, a mere 4% of all registered Catholics.

Tristan Vanheuckelom —

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CDU Chairman Candidate: Anyone Working with the AfD Will be Expelled

“I tell everyone who is concerned, in the north and in the south, in the west and in the east, that we have ruled out this cooperation,” Merz said, adding that any form of collaboration or cooperation between members of his party and the AfD would lead to exclusion procedures.

Robert Semonsen —

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Rule by Judges

Our ancestors were far wiser than we; they knew that a legal system cannot be an end in itself. It must serve a higher power. If to-day’s courts and judges are to be allowed to retain the prestige and trappings of their illustrious predecessors, let them be once more made to serve what those judges of the past served.

Charles A. Coulombe —

Essay

One Cheer for Constitutional Monarchy!

Reigning or not, it is far from beyond the realm of possibility that one or more Royals may one day find the situation forcing or inviting them to mobilise precisely those traditions they embody in order to save their people from whatever dire fate otherwise awaits them.

Charles A. Coulombe —

Essay

Sir Roger Remembered

With the Roger Scruton Memorial Lectures, conservative thinkers and ideas will finally have a space at the University of Oxford.

Paul du Quenoy —

Essay

On Believing Conspiracy Theories

We are, then, in a rather odd situation. It seems that conspiracies are deemed believable when they arise in fiction. It also seems that conspiracies are thought to have really happened, and are considered an essential component in even a superficial understanding of history. But anyone who suggests that we may be in the grips of a conspiracy now is a ‘conspiracy theorist,’ a pejorative term that denotes a person who does not assent to all he is told by mainstream media outlets. 

Sebastian Morello —

Essay

Redeeming the Tyranny of Merit

Our institutions of higher learning nevertheless reveal how, even within a formal meritocracy, entrenched privilege can co-exist with an appearance of fairness. When the lower rungs of the ladder are kicked away by those already on top, social mobility grinds to a halt and the meritocratic promise loses its capacity to inspire.

Harrison Pitt —

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Issue 20, Fall 2021

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Paris Diary

Rats crawling under a Périphérique underpass at Porte de Bagnolet. Graffitied cement cubes serving as the bases for traffic lights from Place Victor Hugo to Boulevard de La Villette. Dirty, yellow-striped concrete guardrails—blocking off traffic or marking bicycle lanes—dropped casually on historic Parisian boulevards, from Rue Royale to Boulevard Saint-Michel to Gare du Nord. Paved […]

Anne-Élisabeth Moutet —

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Interview

An Interview with Alvino-Mario Fantini, Editor of The European Conservative

It’s time for something different. It’s time we were more courageous and firmer on matters of principle—like the dignity of human life, like national sovereignty, like sexual morality. It’s time we stood our ground without flinching. Perhaps then we will finally see some real change—and help save what remains of our civilization.

Mátyás Kohán —

Interview

The Last Dregs of Christendom: An Interview with Paul Kingsnorth

“We’re in either a collapse or a massive transformation culturally in the West,” Paul Kingsnorth tells me cheerfully from his home study in Ireland. “We’re very much at the end of the last dregs of Christendom, which have been dragged out for a long time and are now basically gone. If you take a step […]

Jonathon Van Maren —

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