Category: COMMENTARY

Accepting Difference

Stop letting yourself be blackmailed. Stop neutering your worldview by adopting a slowed-down version of another ideology’s program.

Losing Sight of Ourselves

“I didn’t even look in the mirror to say goodbye to myself. I didn’t care. I wanted to be blind.”

“A Terribly White Balcony”

No matter how much King Charles tried to diversify, it was clear he was going to trip up at some point. And as is so often the way in drama, the denouement of the balcony scene served as his undoing. You could almost hear the media scream “where is the diversity?”

2023 CPAC Hungary: Keynotes, Master Strokes

Speaking to attendees, a consistent through-line may be identified in the visceral rejection of an elite project seeking to concentrate power through radical social atomization and the promotion of weak-souled hedonism.

First Step: China Starts Dollar Takedown

First Step: China Starts Dollar Takedown

Introducing the Renminbi Liquidity Arrangement (RLA), which is aimed squarely at supplanting the dollar.

July 2, 2022
Boris Johnson Diagnoses Putin with “Toxic Masculinity”

Boris Johnson Diagnoses Putin with “Toxic Masculinity”

Johnson lifted talking points from the wokesters’ playbook, calling Putin’s invasion of Ukraine “a perfect example of toxic masculinity” and urging the world to install “more women in positions of power.”

July 1, 2022
A Conservative Antidote for ‘Woke’ Politics

A Conservative Antidote for ‘Woke’ Politics

Tradition and conservatism are not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

July 1, 2022
How the Militant Left Uses Fear

How the Militant Left Uses Fear

A technique the Left uses to increase control through public anxiety is to “set multiple fires along the ridgeline.” The public notices that the flames are spreading. Which fire does one run to first? What must be sacrificed and allowed to burn?

Abortion in the French Constitution: A Political Trap?

Abortion in the French Constitution: A Political Trap?

While there is now a general consensus among French politicians to maintain the right to abortion, there is no guarantee that it will be enshrined in the Constitution.

June 29, 2022
The French Right: Still Alive!

The French Right: Still Alive!

Never before has the national Right achieved such a result in France, to the point of surpassing the governmental Right. New perspectives are opening up for the party founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen.

June 28, 2022
Roe v. Wade and the Sacred Heart

Roe v. Wade and the Sacred Heart

Conservatives on both sides of the Atlantic should draw enormous encouragement from this decision, with the take-home lesson being that history need not be just a sequence of victories by the increasingly noxious Left.

June 28, 2022
The Balkan War on Conservatism

The Balkan War on Conservatism

Funded in part by the U.S. government, a coalition of seemingly respectable organizations has vowed to keep Orbán’s national conservatism from inspiring followers in the Western Balkans.

June 26, 2022
The Bible as Hate Speech

The Bible as Hate Speech

To understand this case, it is helpful to read this passage carefully. It shows how counter-cultural the Bible can be for 21st century Westerners.

June 23, 2022
Keepers of the Script

Keepers of the Script

The ‘keepers of the script’ are the journalists who seek to use media as a weapon to destroy Western heritage and to promote an abstract, utopian idea of how the world should be structured.

June 22, 2022
Perfect Storm: Debt Crisis and the Liquidity Trap

Perfect Storm: Debt Crisis and the Liquidity Trap

In the face of a new debt crisis, the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve and the ECB cannot return to buying large amounts of sovereign debt. The central banks saved indebted governments a decade ago. They can’t do it again. But there are other means at their disposal.

June 20, 2022
Conservatism: From Theory to Practice

Conservatism: From Theory to Practice

Now is the time for us to connect government incursions into our spiritual lives with its incursions into our economic lives.

June 19, 2022