This is a Commission that confuses moralistic fervour and emotional manipulation with legal authority and slogan-infested political theatre with actual power.

What Kast’s election means is that Chileans understand that destroying the foundations of prosperity is not how one corrects its imperfections.

With neither Brussels nor any EU member state at war with Russia, the illegality of the EU Commission’s planned action is not really under dispute.

We’re witnessing the birth of an intelligent, thoughtful, constructive Right that doesn’t just want to replace the Establishment. It wants to govern and actually do things.

Those Syrians who are fond of Islamist rule can and should be able to enjoy their preferred model of political organisation—in their own homeland.

The language has changed, the uniforms have changed, but the underlying assumption—that sovereignty is a problem to be managed, not a right to be exercised—remains the same.

“The 1989 Taif agreement naturalized half a million Muslim Arabs who do not share the slightest common cultural characteristics with Lebanon.”

The danger of 1938 was not too much realism—it was too little. And that is what we risk repeating today, not by negotiating, but by refusing to do so.

Judicial systems across Europe view themselves as guardians of an ideological order that treats populists not as a constituency to be represented but as a pathology to be contained.

Public order is not an optional luxury, but the precondition for prosperity and a decent common life.

The People’s Salvation Cathedral affirms that modernisation can only occur in harmony with a people’s spiritual roots.

The UN does not even pretend to be a servant of a moral order rooted in law anymore. It serves only the balance of its own internal politics.