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Apologia Pro Vita Sua

I would rather be ostracized for the truth than hide in shame living a lie. I refuse to embrace an illiberal, totalitarian ‘liberalism’ based upon distorted versions of truth, justice, and history.

Cornelis J. Schilt —

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Lest We Forget: a Hungarian Woman’s Experience of WWII Soviet Aggression

“A fellow Hungarian villager, Feri Augusztin, came to my father and told him to hand over his daughters, me and my sister Ella, to the Russians. This was the same person who earlier chased the Jews out of their homes. He informed the Russians that we were wealthy Hungarians and threatened Dad, saying that they would execute him unless he gave up his daughters.”

Gellért Rajcsányi —

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Cardinal Zen Brought to Court; Trial Planned for September

Cardinal Joseph Zen, Bishop Emeritus of Hong Kong since 2009, was arrested on May 11th by the Chinese authorities, along with other pro-democracy activists on suspicion of undermining national security and colluding with foreign countries. The cardinal and his companions were released on bail the same day.  The cardinal was subsequently required to appear in […]

Hélène de Lauzun —

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WHO Seeks New Far-Reaching Powers at World Health Assembly

The WHO is seeking to amend the International Health Regulations and impose a global pandemic treaty, both of which would grant the global health body new far-reaching powers that would allow it intervene in the affairs of nation-states in the event of a future pandemic.

Robert Semonsen —

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President Duda in Kyiv: Turning Point in Polish-Ukrainian Relations

Polish President Andrzej Duda chose to pay a surprise visit to his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday, May 22nd. Duda met personally with Zelensky and then gave a speech to the Ukrainian Parliament. It was the first time since the start of the Russian invasion on February 24th that a foreign leader had personally […]

Hélène de Lauzun —

COMMENTARY

Commentary

A Dark Day for Nordic Democracy

Finland and Sweden should consider what it means for the reputability of NATO itself, when two supposedly sound democracies must abandon all democratic procedure in order to apply for membership.

Sven R. Larson —

Commentary

Bold Questions about Voter Fraud in 2020

A new film by Dinesh D’Souza exposes organized abuse of the mail-in ballot and early voting system in order to tip the election. However, this scenario remains hypothetical; to win the debate, D’Souza needs to address a list of weaknesses with his film.

Sven R. Larson —

Commentary

Something Rotten in the Kingdom of France

French paradox: no one wants to give Emmanuel Macron a majority, but all the projections in seats suggest that he will have a comfortable majority. It has been a long time since France has not been in such an absurd, not to say grotesque, political situation.

Hélène de Lauzun —

Commentary

Live Not Like Flies

The resonant echoes of our island story in public rituals, though a little pantomime-ish, reconnect us to our past. They help us feel the burden of our role as custodians of a national inheritance, so that Britain’s most precious features, while subject to repair and improvement where possible, are carried to future generations. In this sense, a country’s rituals are a sign of respect for the past, not blind deference to its every jot and tittle.

Harrison Pitt —

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The Witness of a Suffering Church

In 1989, with the fall of what Ronald Reagan rightly called the “evil empire,” this magnificent Church of martyrs emerged from the catacombs of communism, not liquidated, not re-educated, but forged like gold in the furnace of persecution.

Fr. Benedict Kiely —

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CPAC Hungary: Conservatives of the World, Unite!

Gone is the bombast of economic progress as a good in itself. It seems much of the Right has finally recovered from the hangover of an era in which it was necessary to evidence the superiority of Western capitalism over eastern Bolshevism.

Harrison Pitt, Carlos Perona Calvete —

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Review

A French History of Traditionalists

The subject of these pages is, in a broad sense, religious—Catholic—traditionalists. Yves Chiron also explains why being a ‘traditionalist’ is not exactly the same as being a ‘traditional’ Catholic.

Manuel Vieira da Cruz —

Review

The Leopard Finally Gets an Operatic Adaptation

American composer Michael Dellaira secured the operatic rights to Lampedusa’s novel after rereading it following a trip to Sicily in 2014. Pandemic complications froze the entire performance world for two years, so the opera only had its world premiere in March 2022, in a run of two performances by the Frost Opera Theater.

Paul du Quenoy —

Review

FORGOTTEN CLASSICS: The Disneyfication of Culture

Judging by the 1942 film, the story of Bambi is a relatively simple and childish tale. True, it famously deals with Bambi’s loss of his mother, but in general the movie leaves viewers with the banal, sentimental, fuzzy feelings that has made Disney an entertainment juggernaut. But these are not the feelings Salten’s original novel produces, nor is the novel particularly intended for children. How, then, did Disney’s image of Bambi become the predominant one? And how does this story and its reception shed light on our current Western culture?

Felix James Miller —

Review

Looking East: Hungary’s Lessons for Britain

Particularly in Britain, the New Culture Forum’s film is likely to evoke plaintive sentiments, if not downright fury. Indeed, the UK Conservative government has altogether less to show for itself than the Hungarians do after an equivalent period of now twelve years in Downing Street.

Harrison Pitt —

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