Marco Polo’s memoir portrays an encounter between radically different civilizations that can be a model for us today.
For the first time since 1994, South Africa’s ANC does not have an absolute majority. What comes next will be an important test for the RSA.
Western decadence is today revealed by an out-of-touch elite class, more interested in microaggressions than in civilizational decline.
I knew that Portugal—the great Portugal of the Discoveries and the Empire—was over.
Post-Marxist historiography has insisted on the role of the outside world as the driving force behind the 1964 coup, but in truth their genesis was national and nationalist.
Chega managed to break the siege and assert itself as an instrument of protest by the ‘people’ against ‘the regime.’
Whenever they had power, Marxists persecuted Christians. Now, thanks to subtle propaganda, they have reappeared with the same ideas in a state of apparently unsullied ideology.
Those who set the direction of what came to be called the National Revolution didn’t quite know what they wanted, but they certainly knew what they didn’t want: the growing radicalisation and constitutional crises, against a threatening backdrop of Communism, seen elsewhere in postwar Europe.
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