Month: March 2022

Between Two Worlds: Russia, Ukraine and Balance of Power

The ages-old concept of the balance of power is supposedly understood by every international relations student. However, preoccupied with the ideas of globalism, American and European leaders often forget to take it into account when forming their policies.

The World Needs a Post-Neocon America

Russia bears the full moral and economic burden for the war, but it is also clear that America’s neoconservative doctrine is one of the losers in that conflict. It is time for the foreign-policy elite in Washington to accept that neoconservatism served America well during the Cold War, but should now be gracefully retired.

A Wave of Attacks on Reconquête and Rassemblement National Activists

These attacks were exploited by both parties as evidence of the current administration’s poor handling of security and immigration. Despite the spin, they actually testify to the advanced deterioration of the political climate in France: an accumulation of tensions in society, ready to flare up at any moment.

Pope Francis on European Secularism

Pope Francis’ comments on the anachronistic and watered-down secularism of the modern EU suggest that the globalization of liberal ideology is little more than a form of ‘ideological colonisation’ that neither respects the cultural particularity of individual nations nor protects the openness of the public sphere to the worship of God.

Russia Deploys Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile in Ukraine

Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile has apparently destroyed an arms depot in western Ukraine—the use of hypersonic missiles and Russian missile advancement will likely shape the European rush to increase military budgets and purchase weaponry.

Russia Deploys Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile in Ukraine

Russia Deploys Kinzhal Hypersonic Missile in Ukraine

Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal missile has apparently destroyed an arms depot in western Ukraine—the use of hypersonic missiles and Russian missile advancement will likely shape the European rush to increase military budgets and purchase weaponry.

Italy Offers to Finance the Reconstruction of the Mariupol Theatre

Italy Offers to Finance the Reconstruction of the Mariupol Theatre

The Italian government, through the Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, announced its decision to finance the reconstruction of the Mariupol theatre as it was.

March 23, 2022
Rural Spain Takes on the Capital to Protest its Abandonment

Rural Spain Takes on the Capital to Protest its Abandonment

The annual protest to rally for politics in favour of rural areas has been going on for years, but this year’s demonstration brought out a record number of participants. Organisers, principally farmers and hunters associations, estimated that 400,000 people marched en masse through several of Madrid’s principal streets.

March 23, 2022
The Young Evelyn Waugh: Tragicomic Seeker

The Young Evelyn Waugh: Tragicomic Seeker

Nobody could escape the merciless nature of Waugh’s satirical wit, but he was more than a mere humourist. Alongside his gift for comedy, he also possessed an awareness of a fateful void in the modern world.

March 23, 2022
How Columbus’s Winter in Iceland Helped Him Get to America

How Columbus’s Winter in Iceland Helped Him Get to America

It is a well-known oral tradition around the Olafsvik-Rif-Hellissandur maritime region that Columbus visited Iceland and stayed at the farm at Ingjaldsholl during the winter of 1477 to 1478, likely arriving sometime in the early autumn and leaving in late spring.

March 22, 2022
Zelensky to German Bundestag: “Give Germany the Leadership Role it Deserves”

Zelensky to German Bundestag: “Give Germany the Leadership Role it Deserves”

Ukrainian President Zelensky asked the German Bundestag for more sanctions against Russia and spoke about the “historical responsibility” of Germany to help Ukraine. Opposition leaders were outraged about the lack of debate in the Bundestag following the speech.

March 22, 2022
Report Claims 1 in 3 Refugees Arriving in France is Non-Ukrainian

Report Claims 1 in 3 Refugees Arriving in France is Non-Ukrainian

A sizable minority of refugees who’ve arrived in France after allegedly fleeing the Russia-Ukraine conflict are not Ukrainian, with many of the new arrivals originating from Africa, the Middle East, Central and East Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, a French media outlet has claimed.

March 22, 2022
Beware the ‘Furor Teutonicus’: Hiding Germany’s Failed Energy Policies Behind War

Beware the ‘Furor Teutonicus’: Hiding Germany’s Failed Energy Policies Behind War

Germany has started to beat the drums of war, fueled by a desire to redeem its ancestral sins, and embracing the Russian scapegoat as a distraction from its failed energy politics.

March 22, 2022
Italian Airport Workers Protest over Flight Containing Weapons Cargo Destined for Ukraine

Italian Airport Workers Protest over Flight Containing Weapons Cargo Destined for Ukraine

Workers in Pisa allege a flight meant to contain humanitarian aid was stocking military equipment.

Zelensky Bans Opposition Parties; TV News Nationalized in Clampdown

Zelensky Bans Opposition Parties; TV News Nationalized in Clampdown

“The activities of politicians aimed at splitting or collaborating will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response,” Zelensky said.

March 22, 2022
Epicureanism and the Missing Soul of Modernity

Epicureanism and the Missing Soul of Modernity

This world, as it figures in Lucretius’ magnum opus, is of Epicurean make. It is a world denuded of divine influence, reduced to a drab and tranquil steadiness. Its substantial uniformity also foreshadows, to an uncanny degree, the empirical emptiness of modernity.

March 22, 2022
In Defense of Free Speech

In Defense of Free Speech

Are rights provided to us by government, or is government simply a protector of rights that we have by virtue of being humans?

March 21, 2022