Judging by the 1942 film, the story of Bambi is a relatively simple and childish tale. True, it famously deals with Bambi’s loss of his mother, but in general the movie leaves viewers with the banal, sentimental, fuzzy feelings that has made Disney an entertainment juggernaut. But these are not the feelings Salten’s original novel produces, nor is the novel particularly intended for children. How, then, did Disney’s image of Bambi become the predominant one? And how does this story and its reception shed light on our current Western culture?

There are a few things that the West can do. One is to follow the Latin motto “Si vis pacem, para bellum,” or “If you want peace, prepare for war.” This certainly applies to the Benelux, Germany, and Sweden, whose armed forces have been severely weakened over the past three decades.

Although his statements were sharply criticized by members of his own party, Rousseau found support among prominent Flemish right-wing politicians.

The political situation and dominance of cartels in Latin America, instability and violence in West Africa, and drug consumption in Europe present a single, integrated system, one that Europe, as a major destination of the product in question and an important partner to West African states, has the power to affect.

The idea of motherlessness in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Huxley’s Brave New World may help us understand our own age, in which state encroachment and market forces work together for the abolition of motherhood.

It is noticeable that many of the book’s Anglophone contributors are almost bewildered by the sudden papal attack on the traditional liturgy. This is a shortcoming of the Anglo-centric perspective, which underestimates the depth of the antipathy towards the Apostolic Roman Rite amongst many non-Anglophone bishops.

The prime minister’s long-overdue admission came on Thursday when she conceded that the unprecedented migration over the past two decades—paired with the state’s inability to integrate newcomers—had resulted in dangerous parallel societies and rising gang violence.

Kavala is accused of having contributed to the funding of the protests in Gezi Park in Istanbul in 2013.

After discovering a mass grave, Mali claims advanced state of putrefaction rules out Malian involvement. French military sources, for their part, have produced footage of what they allege are Russian mercenaries arranging corpses to frame France for war crimes.

While Amazon has yet to cease selling the children’s book, it did hold a group session for employees to deal with the “trauma” of the book’s success.

The situations in Ukraine and Libya, unrelated as they seem, illustrate the fragility of European energy architecture, and highlight the need for Europe to develop both energy independence and the ability to exert power in the maintenance of stability in its geopolitical neighborhood.

Robert Fico, the outspoken leader of Slovakia’s anti-establishment opposition party, described the charges leveled against him as an attempt by the government to “liquidate” its political opposition.