Left-wing activists hate us no matter what we do or say. They want us gone. We must therefore stop trying to please our enemies. Not only is it useless, but this attitude leads us to compromise and the loss of our principles.
Peterson’s enemies try to silence him: the latest attempt comes from the Ontario College of Psychologists, who have ordered him to undergo social media ‘re-education,’ or risk suspension of his licence to practice as a clinical psychologist.
Wendell Berry’s stories are an effective evocation of the world he loves and wishes to defend; as one friend put it to me: “His stories make me love what I should love and hate what I should hate.”
The White House denies allegations from the Swiss-German newspaper claiming that Biden would rather concede Ukrainian territory than maintain a long war of attrition. The CIA calls the report “completely false.”
Congo is “not a mine to be exploited nor a land to be plundered,” the pontiff said in Kinshasa, before calling for free elections and de-escalation of the DRC’s civil conflicts.
The compromised wording passed by the senators at least has the merit of refusing to set in stone any ‘right’ to abortion. But another fundamental freedom must be preserved, the freedom of conscience of practitioners to carry out an abortion or not.
Circumventing neutrality embedded in the Swiss Constitution is a tough challenge for lawmakers in Bern, as Ukraine calls for immediate change in legislation.
Left-wing activists hate us no matter what we do or say. They want us gone. We must therefore stop trying to please our enemies. Not only is it useless, but this attitude leads us to compromise and the loss of our principles.
Policies for increasing the return of migrants and restricting visas for non-compliant countries are on the table as the EU tackles its highest migration numbers since 2016.
The UK defence secretary warned that the British Army has been “hollowed out” and needs investment. The country is also forecasted to fare worse than all other developed countries this year, including Russia—so can it continue to support Ukraine?
The Metropolitan Police is also “taking a risk” by hiring individuals whose pasts have been tainted by involvement with the criminal justice system.
The state election’s results come as the FPÖ’s national support base continues to grow, with results from the latest national polls revealing that the conservative party is, by several points, the most popular political force in the country.
Addressing corruption remains of vital concern to Kyiv, as it seeks to prove to its western benefactors that it can be trusted with the billions in aid it has received.
Energy price inflation is tapering off, but when it comes to food, the news is not so good.
Endless arms shipments only prolong the conflict and risk escalation, the defense ministers believe.
Increases in acts of delinquency were observed “in almost all regions or departments,” the report states.
Circumventing neutrality embedded in the Swiss Constitution is a tough challenge for lawmakers in Bern, as Ukraine calls for immediate change in legislation.
The French president proposes a change in France’s military paradigm, in preparation for long-lasting attacks requiring a greater availability of equipment and larger stocks of ammunition.
The West should attempt to compensate for any trade destruction, justified on the basis of geo-security, by opening up trade with parts of the world that are broadly friendly with the West. Southeast Asia is most certainly such a region.
When the Russian Ball was founded during the Cold War, many Russians in Washington who attended came from the first wave of émigrés who had fled the Revolution to become patriotic Americans fighting against the communist terror that had seized their country.
For liberal elites, the boundary between one country and another is as arbitrary as the difference between a man and a woman.
The nude form is regarded by conservatives, not as pornographic, but as a manifestation of beauty, innocence, and our divine origins. This applies to its representation in Romeo and Juliet, the story of an innocent love crushed by the wicked vanities of a corrupt society.
Wendell Berry’s stories are an effective evocation of the world he loves and wishes to defend; as one friend put it to me: “His stories make me love what I should love and hate what I should hate.”
In a span of a few weeks, I was confronted with two distinct views on death and two distinct ways of dying. In one was the illusion of self-mastery; in the other, the radical surrender of self.
Is Hegel’s political thought conservative, progressive, perhaps even revolutionary?
Left-wing activists hate us no matter what we do or say. They want us gone. We must therefore stop trying to please our enemies. Not only is it useless, but this attitude leads us to compromise and the loss of our principles.
In this episode of “Occasional Dialogues,” two philosophers sit down to discuss martial arts and their place in society, their relation to virtue, and how faith can relate to the combative spirit.
Michael Rectenwald discusses what conservatives, libertarians, those on the Right, and free thinkers in general can do to stand up to an ever-encroaching ideological totalitarianism that is attempting to complete its “long march” and cement its position in society via the Great Reset.
If one picked up this book expecting a genuine defence of COVID restrictions, one would soon be disabused of that notion. It is both hilarious and deadly serious, obliging the reader to remember all the traumas that befell us.
In this biography, Christopher J. Farrell describes an extinct species—a muscular liberal and hardcore anti-Communist. It is interesting to read about a man like Earle in an era where, according to progressives, there are mere inches between calling for tax cuts and becoming Hitler.
A Pulitzer-prize winner chronicles Oswaldo Payá’s lifelong struggle to bring democracy to Cuba.
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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