Rafael Pinto Borges

Rafael Pinto Borges is the founder and chairman of Nova Portugalidade, a Lisbon-based, conservative and patriotically-minded think tank. A political scientist and a historian, he has written on numerous national and international publications. You may find him on X as @rpintoborges.
Trojan horse: The Shape-Shifting Politics of Péter Magyar

Trojan horse: The Shape-Shifting Politics of Péter Magyar

The Tisza leader campaigned as ‘Orbán 2.0,’ but days into office, he launched a Tusk-style parliamentary coup, purging conservatives, shutting down state media, and surrendering to Brussels on migration and foreign policy.

New Portuguese Citizenship Law Is a Start—Remigration Must Follow

New Portuguese Citizenship Law Is a Start—Remigration Must Follow

Portugal has been denationalised, deconstructed as a national community, and converted into a confusing, shifting ethnic puzzle. This is no longer a recipe for disaster—it is an existing one.

Leo XIV Recognises Another 49 Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

Leo XIV Recognises Another 49 Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

The timing of the new recognitions suggests Leo is paying attention to what is happening in Spain—and signalling that neither the anti-Catholic abuses of the past nor those of the present will be ignored.

Salazar’s Legacy: Patriot Moderniser or Obscurantist Dictator?—Historian Tom Gallagher

Salazar’s Legacy: Patriot Moderniser or Obscurantist Dictator?—Historian Tom Gallagher

“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”

April 25, 2026
Europe’s Conservative Catholics Won’t Put Up With Trump’s Attacks on the Pope

Europe’s Conservative Catholics Won’t Put Up With Trump’s Attacks on the Pope

In the clash of wills between the White House and the Vatican, it is already clear that the vast majority of Catholics will rather side with their pope than with the president of the United States.

April 17, 2026
Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk

Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk

Perfectly legal acts of political opposition to the establishment can lead an individual to suffer real, painful measures of state coercion.

April 14, 2026
Courage, Hungarians! Europe Counts on You To Beat the Eurocrats Once More

Courage, Hungarians! Europe Counts on You To Beat the Eurocrats Once More

On April 12, Hungarians will be called to choose between adherence to the national interest in governance and the same sort of Brusselian occupation that has led so many other European nations to decay.

April 9, 2026
“What we are seeing today is the systematic removal of Christianity from its birthplace”—<strong>Juliana Taimoorazy</strong>, Iraqi Christian Relief Council Founder

“What we are seeing today is the systematic removal of Christianity from its birthplace”—<strong>Juliana Taimoorazy</strong>, Iraqi Christian Relief Council Founder

“The West cannot champion human rights while ignoring the slow destruction of one of the world’s oldest Christian communities, the Assyrians.”

April 5, 2026
The Canonisation of the Al Qaeda Regime in Syria Is a Global Disgrace

The Canonisation of the Al Qaeda Regime in Syria Is a Global Disgrace

There is something decidedly grim beneath the normalisation of the Damascus regime: a tacit acknowledgement that violence, waged successfully enough, will eventually translate into legitimacy. 

April 1, 2026
Britain Will Not Be Ruling the Waves Again Under This Political Class

Britain Will Not Be Ruling the Waves Again Under This Political Class

A succession of inept Conservative and Labour governments have thoroughly demilitarised Britain.

April 1, 2026
The German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth

The German Establishment’s Secret Plan Against the Truth

Truth cannot survive in a system where its value is subordinated to political expediency.

March 26, 2026
Switzerland’s Cash Enshrinement in the Constitution Is a Win for Liberty

Switzerland’s Cash Enshrinement in the Constitution Is a Win for Liberty

Remove cash from the system, and every economic interaction becomes visible to some authority somewhere, whether in one’s own country or somewhere else.

March 18, 2026