Category: COMMENTARY

Iran’s Underground Church in Wartime

Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their communities, and face intensified state crackdowns.

What If Reform Wins?—A Political Scare Story

A UK journalist’s just-published book imagines Britain under a Nigel Farage premiership—but despite being billed as a “non-fiction thriller,” it may frighten readers less than the country’s current trajectory.

Le Canon Français: Banqueting, the New Face of the Far Right

Enthusiasts of locally produced foods enjoyed in good company to the tune of 15th-century drinking songs cannot indulge in their pastime without the Left suspecting them of singing the Horst-Wessel-Lied between bites of sauerkraut.

The Horrors of Cuba’s Prisons

The president denies Cuba has political prisoners—yet an increasing number of dissidents are being jailed under brutal conditions.

Pilgrimage at the Spanish Steps

The legendary steps serve as a reminder that in a world consumed by short-term thinking, we’ve lost sight of the kinds of wealth that don’t show up on a balance sheet.

Abortion Is a Luxury Europe Cannot Afford

Abortion Is a Luxury Europe Cannot Afford

A civilization without children does not have a future. A civilization that kills its own children does not deserve one.

April 16, 2026
Sovereignist Parties Will Become Even More Important After Orbán’s Defeat

Sovereignist Parties Will Become Even More Important After Orbán’s Defeat

Those who most need Orbán’s policies are no longer in Hungary but across a Europe that von der Leyen’s policies have helped turn into increasingly soulless nations.

April 16, 2026
Awakened by Euthanasia?

Awakened by Euthanasia?

Spain’s latest assisted suicide should sober the ardor of ‘right-to-die’ advocates everywhere.

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
Colonial Restitutions: Moral Illusion and Disarmament of Cultural Heritage

Colonial Restitutions: Moral Illusion and Disarmament of Cultural Heritage

France is becoming entangled in a misguided sense of repentance that is detrimental to cultural works and the preservation of heritage.

April 13, 2026
Hungary’s Advantage at Risk in Tisza’s Brussels Bargain

Hungary’s Advantage at Risk in Tisza’s Brussels Bargain

It would be a fool’s errand for Hungary to go to Brussels and submit to policies that are directly harmful to Hungary in exchange for an unfreezing of EU funding.

April 11, 2026
How One Former Migrant Exposed Germany’s Contempt for Free Speech

How One Former Migrant Exposed Germany’s Contempt for Free Speech

It is a telling sign of our times that a movement claiming to oppose racism relies so heavily on censorship.

April 11, 2026
The Case of Alsace: A Quest for Identity

The Case of Alsace: A Quest for Identity

Thinking in terms of functional regions with which no one identifies simply doesn’t work: Europe would do well to give this some thought.

April 10, 2026
Albania and the EU’s Convenient Fiction

Albania and the EU’s Convenient Fiction

EU leadership prioritises enlargement over rule of law in Albania, accepting democratic backsliding in exchange for political stability.

April 10, 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
Bagayoko in Saint-Denis: A French Obama?

Bagayoko in Saint-Denis: A French Obama?

The French media have found themselves a new darling—one who merely highlights their racialist obsession.

April 8, 2026
Hungary Is Living the Feminist Dream—the West Refuses To Admit it

Hungary Is Living the Feminist Dream—the West Refuses To Admit it

Where the Dutch government looks at a young woman and sees a taxpayer it cannot afford to lose, the Orbán government looks at her and sees a mother it wants to support.

April 8, 2026