Suppressing remarks or attitudes that could harm a “peaceful social climate” may be great for genteel Council of Europe meetings, university seminars, or dinner parties, even if it might make them a trifle dull. But it won’t work for any kind of effective 21st century politics.

FROM THE SUMMER 2023 PRINT EDITION: ‘John Doe conservatism,’ inspired by Frank Capra’s 1941 American film classic, Meet John Doe, refers to a political philosophy of simplicity, quotidian human decency, and humdrum heroism.

There is no question that free trade prospects in the UK are lagging, but there is more at stake than simply the arrest of British economic growth. A free economy gives rise to virtuous citizenry, promotes desirable social ends by means of employment, and reduces poverty—noble goals that were developed over the last two centuries.

The Democratic party is increasingly worried about Biden’s chances in 2024. To their rescue comes California Governor Gavin Newsom. But does he even have a chance?

While Hungary’s family laws at home may be trending in a conservative direction, the Hungarian government continues to align with the EU in social policy debates at the UN.

Over one million Europeans want farmers to stop using synthetic pesticides; farmers want policy coherence and consistency. Can a resolution be found?

Unlike imagination, fantasy permits one to depart from reality and take refuge in cheap consolations that cannot be found in this world and would destroy our world if they were here.

The tricouleur now seems to represent the empty promises of a failed experiment that has gone on for too long.

Our human links to the Holocaust are breaking, one by one, and there are now few left to share memories about the people they knew, loved, and lost.

A world without Chartres, without Mont Saint-Michel, without Pernand-Vergelesses, without Monet and Matisse, without the oysters of Brittany, the butter of Normandy, and the quenelles of Lyon, and without autumnal strolls through the Luxembourg Gardens, and a spring gallivant up the Boulevard Saint-Germain would be a world of acute poverty.

Throughout human history, hate was not viewed as generally abnormal or anti-social. It was just another emotion that, along with anger, despair or love, had a place in human relationships.

The Lexi character is becoming normal among the young raised in the comforts and choices of late capitalism. They cannot bear even the slightest glitch in the matrix of experience without going to pieces.