Month: January 2023

Hermes is the Midwife to Dionysus

Let us seek to banish Hermes and his associates back towards the margins where they rightly belong before the maenads one day end up coming for us all.

Progressivism at the Opera: Enough is Enough

Alagna, Kurzak, Tézier, Kaufmann: Does the healthy reaction of these artists herald a new era, when opera will cease to be a place of propaganda, political activism, and wokeism?

Whetting the Appetite for Battle

Fighting Back does more than simply hope that the dire state of our culture can be reversed. It offers practical strategies, across every aspect of life, for turning things around and emerging victorious.

Shakespearean Shakedown: <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> Film Actors Sue Over Ancient Nude Scene

Shakespearean Shakedown: <em>Romeo and Juliet</em> Film Actors Sue Over Ancient Nude Scene

Whiting and Hussey recently decided that their nude scenes in Romeo and Juliet—their only claim to anything approaching fame—had exploited and abused them.

January 9, 2023
Greece’s Last King Placed in Intensive Care

Greece’s Last King Placed in Intensive Care

Constantine II is in critical but stable condition. He ruled the Greek people from 1964 to 1973 until a 1974 referendum abolished the monarchy.

January 9, 2023
The New Latin Conservatism

The New Latin Conservatism

The Right must adapt its ideas, strategy, and discourse to the current political ‘dialectics,’ and not remain anchored to—or trapped by—approaches that are far from the concerns of citizens today.

U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Fired After Accusing JP Morgan Chase of Aiding Epstein Sex Trafficking 

U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Fired After Accusing JP Morgan Chase of Aiding Epstein Sex Trafficking 

“JPMorgan turned a blind eye to evidence of human trafficking over more than a decade because of Epstein’s own financial footprint, and because of the deals and clients that Epstein brought and promised to bring to the bank,” AG George alleged in the lawsuit.

January 8, 2023
On the Bleiburg Massacre: An Interview with <strong>Álvaro Peñas</strong>

On the Bleiburg Massacre: An Interview with <strong>Álvaro Peñas</strong>

At Bleiburg, the communists eliminated those they saw as their real opponents, their ‘class enemies’: the bourgeois, businessmen, clergymen, and all those who might oppose the new communist regime.

January 8, 2023
Tank Traps, Christmas Trees, and Dark Cities—A Report From Lviv

Tank Traps, Christmas Trees, and Dark Cities—A Report From Lviv

Known as the ‘Vienna of the East,’ Lviv continues to be a center of hope and symbol of resistance to the Russian offensive.

January 8, 2023
Daniel Barenboim Resigns From Berlin State Opera After Three-Decade Tenure

Daniel Barenboim Resigns From Berlin State Opera After Three-Decade Tenure

The 80-year-old conductor regretted that his health had “deteriorated significantly,” and that he could “no longer deliver the performance which is rightly demanded of a General Music Director.”

January 8, 2023
The Politics of the Passion

The Politics of the Passion

Jesus Christ died unlike he had lived: politically. D. L. Dusenbury urges us to reassess the gospels.

Analysts Agree: EU Facing Recession

Analysts Agree: EU Facing Recession

Given the high level of economic integration in Europe, it is unlikely that a recession will be confined to half the continent.

January 7, 2023
The Bolivar Legacy <br>Part II: Debt and Regret

The Bolivar Legacy <br>Part II: Debt and Regret

We may trace the beginning of Latin American poverty and economic subordination to Bolivar’s policy of garnering support by indebting his embryonic state.

January 7, 2023
EU Fines Meta for Failing to Respect Data Privacy Legislation

EU Fines Meta for Failing to Respect Data Privacy Legislation

The company has three months to comply, but Meta has announced its intention to appeal both on the merits and the fines. In its defence, Zuckerberg’s company argues that there is not enough “regulatory certainty” about data protection.

January 7, 2023
Germans’ Trust in State & Political Institutions Sinks to New Low

Germans’ Trust in State & Political Institutions Sinks to New Low

“The mood in society is similar to the mood in the GDR at the end of the 1980s, shortly before the collapse of the system,” AfD MP Petr Bystron said while commenting on the survey’s alarming figures.

January 7, 2023