Category: COMMENTARY

God or No God in Our Constitution?

Rather than lifting us out of our current political trench warfare, the dispute over a reference to God in the Saarland constitutional preamble merely illuminates it.

Secular Europe’s Failure: Why Only Christ Can Stop Islamization

The urgent question for Europe is why are Muslims converting to Christianity in places where the faith is banned, persecuted, or heavily restricted—yet in open, tolerant Europe, with welcoming churches on every corner, many grow firmer in Islam and some even become radicalized?

Woke Archaeology

‘Decolonial’ thinking provides a moral alibi that allows socialist failures to be presented as the inevitable effects of an omnipresent ‘coloniality’ that cannot be eradicated as long as any ties to the West remain.

A Good Fence Makes Good Sense

A Good Fence Makes Good Sense

The fool tears down the wall for want of wit to find the gate.

April 25, 2026
The Merz Affair and Germany’s War on Free Speech

The Merz Affair and Germany’s War on Free Speech

In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them.

April 24, 2026
A Catholic Leader Takes the Reins at Strasbourg’s Women’s Rights Forum

A Catholic Leader Takes the Reins at Strasbourg’s Women’s Rights Forum

Teresa Gerns, the Council of Europe advocacy director for the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe, will lead a committee examining the barriers women face when trying to balance paid work and motherhood.

April 23, 2026
Happy “St. George Wasn’t Even English” Day!

Happy “St. George Wasn’t Even English” Day!

Every April 23rd, as sure as night follows day, the UK commentariat loves to sneer at ordinary English people.

April 23, 2026
The Pope, ‘Chrislam,’ and the Selective Courage Toward Power

The Pope, ‘Chrislam,’ and the Selective Courage Toward Power

When peace among nations becomes the ultimate end of religion, religions are reduced to geopolitical instruments.

April 22, 2026
The Hypocrisy of Progressive Europe

The Hypocrisy of Progressive Europe

For progressives, ‘liberalism’ now means ‘the compelled acceptance and legal implementation of LGBT ideology.’ To oppose it, conversely, is thus ‘illiberalism.’

April 22, 2026
The Empty Mantra of the ‘Another Inquiry’

The Empty Mantra of the ‘Another Inquiry’

Britain doesn’t need to learn any more lessons—it needs the will to act.

April 21, 2026
The Religion of World War Two

The Religion of World War Two

Moral vanity is the sin into which we can all too easily fall when our ethical model becomes one of fleeing evil, not imitating goodness.

April 20, 2026
Liberalism and the Future of the Family

Liberalism and the Future of the Family

Seeking to defend the family within the discourse of modern rights is like trying to save Gondor by using the Ring.

April 19, 2026
Is the Magyar Option the New Anti-Conservative Winning Formula?

Is the Magyar Option the New Anti-Conservative Winning Formula?

Ultimately, the question is not simply why governments fall but how their opponents win.

April 18, 2026
Why Today’s Silicon Valley Will Never Save the West

Why Today’s Silicon Valley Will Never Save the West

To save the West, we must look to our civilizational roots and embody them in the advances of the future.

April 18, 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