July 2017

Why did you write the book Jan Sobieski: The King Who Saved Europe? Jan Sobieski was one of the most…

For the Frenchmen who lived through World War II, the defining event of their lives was quintessentially political. It was the great refusal, embodied by General Charles de Gaulle, to accept the defeat of June 1940. With that refusal came a determined commitment to re-establish national sovereignty. This was more than a matter of overthrowing German occupation. As de Gaulle recognized, it required Frenchmen to recover the spiritual independence of…

“All circumstances taken together, the French Revolution is the most astonishing that has hitherto happened in the world.” These words,…

Ernst Nolte, who died on 18 August 2016 at the age of 93, was the most controversial German historian of…

In How to Be a Conservative, you write: “It is not unusual to be a conservative. But it is unusual…

The annual Vanenburg Meeting, organized by the Center for European Renewal, was held 19–21 August 2016. This was the 11th…

Our interpreter suddenly paused, then swallowed slowly. He obviously did not feel too comfortable with what he had just heard.…

Rocco Buttiglione is an Italian philosopher and statesman. A professor at St. Pius V University in Rome, Buttiglione is an…

In France, religious believers — and especially Catholics — are very often presumed not to be good citizens. It is…

The political and social embers may still be glowing in the UK following its monumental referendum last year to leave…

The outcome of the Brexit vote in June 2016 was clearly an historic moment. Despite the predictions of some early…

The EU last year appointed its greatest crusader, Guy Verhofstadt, as one of the negotiators dealing with Brexit. Although the…

A sound migration policy needs to be grounded on principles. I shall try to propose a foundation for migration policies…

There are few subjects more delicate than immigration. No person of goodwill could deny that that no subject is more…