Category: COMMENTARY

The Truck: A Rolling Symbol of America

We Americans hate compromises. If we can’t get everything today, we invent a way to get everything tomorrow. That is why we love our trucks.

A 21st-Century Peasants’ Revolt

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

The Normalization of Polyamory

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

The Spy Who Loved Me

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

Clash Between Right Wing Allies

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

Conservatives Need to Re-embrace the Free Market

Conservatives Need to Re-embrace the Free Market

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.

July 17, 2023
The America Report: In Search of New Leadership

The America Report: In Search of New Leadership

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?

July 16, 2023
Hungary and Poland Should Stand Against the EU’s Sexual Imperialism

Hungary and Poland Should Stand Against the EU’s Sexual Imperialism

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.

Top-Down or Bottom-Up, Pesticides Are All the Buzz at the Commission

Top-Down or Bottom-Up, Pesticides Are All the Buzz at the Commission

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

July 16, 2023
F·R·I·E·N·D·S:  A Work of Truly Bewitching Propaganda

F·R·I·E·N·D·S:  A Work of Truly Bewitching Propaganda

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.

July 16, 2023
A Bleak Bastille Day Descends Upon France

A Bleak Bastille Day Descends Upon France

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

July 16, 2023
Anne Frank’s Friends: Living Memory and the Holocaust

Anne Frank’s Friends: Living Memory and the Holocaust

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.

July 15, 2023
A Bastille Day Love Letter To France

A Bastille Day Love Letter To France

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.

July 14, 2023
The ‘H’ Word

The ‘H’ Word

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.

July 14, 2023
Amalfi Coast, you have failed Lexi Jordan

Amalfi Coast, you have failed Lexi Jordan

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.

July 13, 2023
The Tories: Cutting Throats to Cut Costs?

The Tories: Cutting Throats to Cut Costs?

The Tories have made it as plain as they can: they will do nothing to stop the boats. And not one of them will entertain hosting an illegal migrant, but they’ll make sure you do.

July 13, 2023
Could Family Possibly Be of Any Use?

Could Family Possibly Be of Any Use?

Let’s rejoice: families can be useful—the government is finally saying so.

July 12, 2023