Category: Analysis

The Strange Death of the German Left

More than three decades after the end of the communist GDR, the successor to the former state party is being ripped apart by internal divisions.

Inflation Comeback: A Challenge for the ECB

Europe will be facing a recession. The question is whether or not rising unemployment will come with higher or lower inflation rates—and monetary conservatism or monetary expansion.

The EU Taxman Cometh

The EU wants to levy its own taxes. Here is why that is a bad idea.

How Globalism Digests Nations: Deindustrialization and the International Division of Labour

How Globalism Digests Nations: Deindustrialization and the International Division of Labour

Globalism requires that societies accept their place in a global division of labour, and the principal political agent facilitating this is the anti-worker, pro-woke Left, with a complicit centre-Right as rearguard.

January 18, 2023
Return of the Gold Standard?

Return of the Gold Standard?

Any move in the gold-standard direction must be guided by pragmatism, not dogmatism.

January 17, 2023
Pension Reform: A French Penelope’s Tapestry

Pension Reform: A French Penelope’s Tapestry

There is one major omission from all the discussions on pension reform: the question of the birth rate and its corollary, family policy.

January 16, 2023
Crisis in Peru

Crisis in Peru

The new government has declared a state of emergency in the face of ongoing protests in favor of the deposed president, leaving at least three dozen people dead.

January 16, 2023
Progressivism at the Opera: Enough is Enough

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?

January 12, 2023
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
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
Bakhmut’s Bloodbath: This Is Why the Russians and the Ukrainians Are Killing Each Other

Bakhmut’s Bloodbath: This Is Why the Russians and the Ukrainians Are Killing Each Other

Fighting has been going on since May in the area mainly besieged by the mercenaries of Russia’s Wagner Group, and both sides attach more importance to the area than its real military value.

January 6, 2023
The Failed American Welfare State

The Failed American Welfare State

The long list of social benefits in the U.S. operate on a socialist ideological basis: they elevate the standard of living of the gainfully employed with lower incomes and have higher-income citizens pay for it.

January 1, 2023
Sweden: An Economic Obituary

Sweden: An Economic Obituary

Sweden has failed to focus fiscal policy on economic growth. Employment is now falling, and there is a debt bomb about to explode in the economy.

December 27, 2022
Libertarianism: A Dead End

Libertarianism: A Dead End

Despite clear and unwavering opposition to socialism, the conservative movement remains reluctant to dip its toes into the debate over the welfare state, the foremost vehicle for socialist policies in democratic countries.

December 26, 2022
Light in the Darkness: How Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Survives the War

Light in the Darkness: How Ukraine’s Transcarpathia Survives the War

Heating, lighting, and electricity come and go in Transcarpathia, plunged into uncertainty and darkness as a result of the war in Ukraine. However, the Ukrainian community that lives on the other side of the Hungarian border struggles to live on.

December 20, 2022