Russia and China conceive of the emerging multipolar world in different ways despite their substantial convergence in opposition to Western unipolarity.

Like the world which Kojève observed in 1945 and again in 1957, ours is a world of great powers vying for global dominance.

Only a society of narcissists, concerned only with the endless accumulation of their own egos, would treat both the born and unborn as objects to be manipulated, consumed, and discarded in the process of ego-production.

The God of Genesis may have promised never again to send a flood upon the whole earth; but he did not promise not to send capitalism.

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.

There is a path forward, but it is a narrow and tricky one that winds along the knife-edge between revolution and reaction.