Month: March 2022

Feminists Divided over Transgenderism and Prostitution

International Women’s Day saw a rift between feminists marching in Spanish cities, as some supported the government’s legislation on gender identification, whereas others preferred a biological definition of the female sex.

Katalin Novák Elected President of Hungary

The new president arrived at Parliament accompanied by her husband and three children. Refuting the ‘codes’ of militant feminism, Novák highlighted her identity as a woman and mother as decisive assets in politics.

Ukraine Stops Export of Sunflower Oil and Wheat

War in the Eurasian breadbasket is causing European countries to have to rethink food security and current agricultural policy for both the immediate and long-term futures.

Security Concerns in Bosnia Prompt Europe to Action

Foreign minister Bisera Turkovic said that the Ukraine war “is causing fear and concern in our region that this might now be the beginning of a larger trend in Eastern Europe,” and that “the Balkans is Europe’s Achilles heel.”

ECB: Interest Rates at Record Low in January

Interest rates in the euro zone remained low through January, the European Central Bank reported on March 3rd. Loans by commercial banks to non-financial corporations averaged an annualized rate of 1.43%, the same as in October last year and only marginally up from November (1.39%) and December (1.36%). The average interest rate on loans to […]

Russian Aggression Renews Japanese Claim on Kuril Islands

The Russian-Ukrainian conflict is resurrecting other clashes over territorial sovereignty elsewhere in the world. Japan is taking advantage of the Ukrainian opportunity to make its claim to the Kuril Islands archipelago heard again, which it has disputed with Russia for more than 70 years. The Kuril Islands are an archipelago of volcanic islands located between […]

Wokesters and Whigs: A Tale of Two Supremacies

The problem with complacent ruling elites is that, to justify their dominance, they are forced to resuscitate old terrors and to make up new ones. They rely on phantom enemies against which they can pose as our protectors.

Defending Camelot

Defending Camelot

The Arthurian legend, despite attempts to use it for other purposes, is a parable of a militant Catholicism that saved Western civilisation.

March 9, 2022
Ukrainian Peace Negotiator Thought to be Russian Asset Killed

Ukrainian Peace Negotiator Thought to be Russian Asset Killed

While Ukraine’s defense ministry says Denis Kireev was killed while serving in an operation to “defend the nation,” local media, two Ukrainian MPs, and Russian media say the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) shot him dead during an attempted arrest for treason.

March 8, 2022
Austrian Minister of Health Resigns after Less than a Year

Austrian Minister of Health Resigns after Less than a Year

Austria’s government is once more changing personnel: after its third chancellor in two years, it will now also see its third minister of health, following the departure of Wolfgang Mückstein.

March 8, 2022
Oncologist Network Pulls Out of Russia

Oncologist Network Pulls Out of Russia

OncoAlert, a global network of oncologists, has cancelled its participation in all collaborations and congresses in Russia, in response to the conflict in Ukraine.

Sinking Below Sea Level? Dutch Constitutional Standards on the Decline

Sinking Below Sea Level? Dutch Constitutional Standards on the Decline

Only bottom-up demands for accountability can strengthen Dutch liberal democracy.

German Health Insurer Director Fired over Letter Regarding Vaccination Side Effects

German Health Insurer Director Fired over Letter Regarding Vaccination Side Effects

A letter by the director of the German health insurer BKK ProVita caused a ruckus among medical associations for claiming that negative side effects of COVID vaccinations were severely under-reported. Now, the director has been fired.

March 8, 2022
Ukraine’s Forgotten Corner: Transcarpathia’s Hungarian Minority Faces The War

Ukraine’s Forgotten Corner: Transcarpathia’s Hungarian Minority Faces The War

Unlike the majority of refugees, Transcarpathian Hungarians are at least familiar with Hungary thanks to family ties or working relationships. They do not come as strangers.

March 8, 2022
Macron is the Official Candidate to his Own Succession

Macron is the Official Candidate to his Own Succession

An outburst of criticism accompanied this last-minute candidacy. For several weeks Emmanuel Macron has been accused of taking advantage of the pandemic, and of the war, to dodge debates about his time in office, now coming to an end.

March 8, 2022
Ukrainian Refugee Visa Scheme Launched by British Home Secretary in Poland

Ukrainian Refugee Visa Scheme Launched by British Home Secretary in Poland

Initially, the Home Office was only showing generosity to Ukrainians with immediate family residing in Britain. But changes to that more restrictive policy have since been announced.

March 8, 2022
Afterlife of an American Pulpster

Afterlife of an American Pulpster

Howard, the writers who influenced him, and many of those that came after in the same heroic vein seem more outside the pale of literary respectability than they would have been a century ago. It is not just the artificial divide between Literature with a capital L and popular genre fiction, or the modern disdain for the writers of the past. The even greater divide is between unironically portraying heroism in the West and despising it and deconstructing it in order to bring about its demise.

The Pope Whisperer: Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

The Pope Whisperer: Don Lorenzo Perosi (1872-1956)

To fully appreciate Perosi, we must try to look at the hope he sparked in people during his golden age.

March 7, 2022
Latin Bishops Ask to Consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Blessed Mother

Latin Bishops Ask to Consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Blessed Mother

The Latin Rite Catholic bishops petitioned Pope Francis on Ash Wednesday, in which they explicitly asked him to consecrate Ukraine and Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

March 7, 2022