
What I Saw at the EU Farmers’ Protest
The very nature of the protest highlighted the fact that the farmers believe their backs are against the wall.

The very nature of the protest highlighted the fact that the farmers believe their backs are against the wall.

The political elite increasingly seeks to implement its own agenda—no matter what ordinary people want.

After years of tensions, European elites have entered into a personal crusade against Orbán; they want his head.

A now-delayed expansion would have increased euthanasia numbers dramatically.

Polyamory gives people who wish to cheat on their partners the language they need to justify it.

Spanish politics is unfolding like the plot of a spy novel, except that it’s all real.

Marine Le Pen distanced her party from the German right wing, but a break with the AfD could end up isolating the Rassemblement National in the European Parliament

The EU is virtually incapable of making rational decisions in line with its own long-term interests.

Brussels has taken of the gloves with a blackmail plan to destroy Hungary’s economy.

Zero-sum nationalisms remain the primary cause of interstate wars.
The battle for control over the GOP is in full swing. The old establishment are dead set on taking back the party from the MAGA Trumpers.
The candidates looked more like contestants on Trump’s business reality television program The Apprentice than serious alternative contenders for the highest office in the land.
The technocratic crusade against so-called disinformation is in fact nakedly political and anti-democratic.
Men competing against women in chess would seem to be eminently sensible if the egalitarians truly believed their hype.
The deluded ranks who jump to the defence of thugs fail to understand that they are guilty of the most damaging class condescension.
Adam Smith once told a friend reassuringly, “There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.” He meant that nations have deep reserves that may not be visible in a crisis moment. But just how much ruin is there left in contemporary Britain?
Rather than trying to restrict the ownership of firearms, we should encourage it.
To evolve from libertarian icon to statesman, the Argentinian candidate needs to think beyond the material.
Imagine realizing that you failed to protect your child from medical quacks who amputated healthy body parts and left her mutilated for life.
Many popular parties in Europe do not want to challenge the status quo and will stoop to forming alliances with leftists. However, these parties fail to realize that by doing this, they are losing their conservative identity, their authority, and their voters.
Negativity, including the aestheticization of aggression, can serve as temperature shock, coaxing the culture into respecting the integrity of certain barriers.
A protest song calling out rich politicians for their indifference to the pain of working people has hit a nerve and topped the music charts, both in the U.S. & around the world.