Those who set the direction of what came to be called the National Revolution didn’t quite know what they wanted, but they certainly knew what they didn’t want: the growing radicalisation and constitutional crises, against a threatening backdrop of Communism, seen elsewhere in postwar Europe.
An investigation revealed that some Syrians who had fled the civil war had encountered their former torturers while living in the Netherlands.
The Magnificent Ambersons engages with issues of technological and social change in modernity. But it is also a very human story, focusing on a single family, detailing the lives of its members as change rocks their way of life
A Belgian man accused of espionage and an Iranian diplomat accused of a bomb plot have been liberated through Oman’s mediation.
Oddly, rather than focusing on France’s downward spiral into barbarism, leftist lawmakers instead chose to comment on the alleged ‘taboos’ that Macron broke with his choice of words.
While abiding by the Code is voluntary, the same does not apply to the EU’s new content moderation rulebook, the Digital Services Act. Regarding the latter, EU Commissioner Thierry Breton warned: “You can run, but you can’t hide.”
Les Républicains wants to appear to be in tune with the state of French public opinion, which demands rigour and firmness in the management of immigration.
The EU’s messianic reflex is all the more worrying considering that Brussels recently acquired a formidable weapon with imprecise contours: financial conditionality.
Various Tory prime ministers, first David Cameron, then Boris Johnson, then Liz Truss, then Rishi Sunak, have promised British voters to drastically reduce immigration, and they have all failed, purposefully or not, to deliver.
Spain’s local elections are setting the stage for general elections in December.
Based on Eurostat numbers, it is inaccurate to declare the German economy in recession.
Speakers noted that there is a risk that the increasing push towards digital dominance will make European citizens not just less strong, but less free.
The failed incursion on Russian soil using U.S. equipment—of which Washington strongly disapproved—seems not to have impacted the flow of arms.
There are “technical limitations to what’s possible,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, hinting that his company might have to leave Europe if Brussels remains unwilling to compromise.
In order to accelerate the ecological transition, Elisabeth Borne highlighted the necessary distribution of the effort between the state, individuals, and companies.
Votes were apparently being bought for €50-200 in a massive surge of fraudulent voting which VOX suggests might have been organized by Morocco.
Les Républicains wants to appear to be in tune with the state of French public opinion, which demands rigour and firmness in the management of immigration.
If neither wages nor energy prices can explain why the ECB is right in being concerned about persistent inflation, then what can explain it? There is a candidate that nobody wants to talk about: taxes.
We will only get one chance to save America from the abyss of a debt crisis. Let us make sure we get it right on day one.
Why were speaking slots given to representatives of the party that has done the most to stab conservatives in the back? Why did no one kick up a fuss?
In Europe, the eco-‘woke’ movement is nowhere as strong as it is in Berlin. But after a nepotism scandal was exposed, Germany’s Greens have gone on the defense.
Fundamentally, the core of the problem is the EU’s adherence to the precautionary principle, which comes with a deeply unscientific intolerance for any risk.
Unparalleled in terms of harsh criticism: Voegelin opines on Popper’s work in correspondence with Leo Strauss.
There’s little point in visiting a monastery where none of the monks have tasted beatitude, and a father who hasn’t kept faith over years of disciplining action can’t really hope to steer his son true.
Ukraine’s struggle against Russian aggression serves an illusion for a certain kind of American and pro-Atlanticist conservative in Europe: that Ukraine’s patriots can fill the West’s spiritual and cultural void.
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We must fight on all fronts; reinvest in and renew fields that have been neglected: culture, the arts, media, etc. The reconquest of our countries depends above all on the reconquest of our minds.
Once Christianity faced off with modernity, says Chantal Delsol, the handwriting was on the wall. And even though a handful of elites deluded themselves into believing in the future of atheism, most people need gods—and soon the old gods began to creep back in.
Today, the image of the cave is regarded with suspicion. It seems to call for rule by experts and social engineers, for a tyranny of technocrats: a dubious, if not diabolical, prospect.
A renewal of the European institutions is necessary, as they seem far removed from the real situations experienced by millions of Italians and Europeans.
A bomb of poverty has been hurled at the country by economic sanctions imposed by the West, Kiely says.
The idea that everyone must ‘invent’ their own identity creates too much social stress, too much discomfort. Perhaps we were freer and more comfortable when certain identity traits were already taken care of beforehand.
Both the novel and the memoir touch on themes that are sadly out of fashion today: the brotherhood of arms crossing ethnic and cultural divides, individual bravery in battle, and the manly quest to build empires.
MasterVoices does not appear to be planning any Gilbert and Sullivan next season, but it should consider exploring that repertoire as it moves on. Events in Britain might just demand it.
A new book by ethicist Nigel Biggar argues that post-colonial guilt has been blown out of proportion.
In what turned out to be his last public homily, delivered three days before he died, Cardinal Pell referred to the “heritage of Wojtyla and Ratzinger.” In addition to being courageous teachers of the Catholic faith, they were, Pell said, also “Europeans, examples of men with profound knowledge of the high culture of the Western world.”
Her motto: “Never complain, never explain” is something we could all take heart from, not just one or two minor royals.
In four short years, the spirit of reform ushered in by Mikhail Gorbachev tore down one of the most totalitarian constructs in modern human history and allowed for the healing of scars that had marred an entire continent for decades.
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