Category: COMMENTARY

The Portuguese Right Unites Against Lula’s Visit

Chega managed to host the largest demonstration ever against a foreign head of state—and, in another first, secured unity among disparate factions of the Portuguese Right, which usually compete rather than cooperate.

Centrist Bill To Abolish Pension Reform?

The LIOT group announced its intention to propose a new bill to repeal the pension reform. They will focus specifically on the repeal of Article 7—the one that pushes back the legal retirement age from 62 to 64 years.

No, Minister

To echo Raab’s sentiments: a dangerous precedent has been set here. How are ministers expected to effect change when the slightest criticism could see them hounded out of office? 

The America Report: Child Trafficking, Beer Boycotts, and UFOs

While a U.S. whistleblower reveals that her government is acting as a middleman in child trafficking, at least one European paper is more interested in the disclosure of the U.S. government’s involvement in reverse-engineering UFOs.

Solar Utopias and Heavy Metal

From Tommasso Campanella’s City of the Sun, to modern ‘solarpunk,’ the sun has historically been linked to utopian thought-experiments in fiction.

Maxing Out The Race Card

Diane Abbott is merely the culmination of decades’ worth of identity politics— Labour’s stock-in-trade—for which she has long been the poster girl.

God, Profit, and Capitalism

God, Profit, and Capitalism

Capitalism does not destroy other values, nor does it come without respectable merits. Quite the contrary: the profit motive has elevated human existence to unprecedented levels. We can feed more mouths, cure more of the sick, educate, and elevate more people than we have ever been able to do. The problem lies instead in the fallibility of human nature.

June 7, 2022
The Wrong Kind of Diversity: Vatican Suspends Ordinations in Toulon

The Wrong Kind of Diversity: Vatican Suspends Ordinations in Toulon

A choice of diversity and openness—to use concepts that should be in vogue—has worked to reverse the aging trend in apostolic vocations in Bishop Rey’s diocese. But the decision from Rome proves that the Pope, and he alone, determines what passes for diversity and openness.

Faith in Victory: the Conservative Renaissance in Europe

Faith in Victory: the Conservative Renaissance in Europe

The common good is superior to the sum of individual goods; the nation is above the lobby; and truth, good, and beauty are those eternal values that, together with human dignity, represent the triumph of faith and reason.

June 5, 2022
Prepare for Another Debt Crisis

Prepare for Another Debt Crisis

A new debt crisis looks unavoidable. There is practically no interest in fiscal reforms across Europe, leaving the continent vulnerable to a destructive downward spiral of rising interest rates and structural budget deficits.

June 4, 2022
A Sensible Guidance: UK Attorney General Says School Pupils Are Legally Their Biological Sex

A Sensible Guidance: UK Attorney General Says School Pupils Are Legally Their Biological Sex

Schools are a key battleground in identity politics. It is refreshing to see some common sense from the Attorney General.

June 3, 2022
The Fall of Anne Spiegel: Revealing the Hypocrisy of Modern Feminism

The Fall of Anne Spiegel: Revealing the Hypocrisy of Modern Feminism

It is not only the Anne Spiegels of this world who pay the bill. All families are affected, and even women who do not consider themselves feminists can no longer escape the social demands of this profoundly anti-family feminism.

June 2, 2022
The Destruction of Fatherhood Leads to the Destruction of the Fatherland

The Destruction of Fatherhood Leads to the Destruction of the Fatherland

Families are a wall; a bulwark against dictatorship, a bastion of liberty. The family is at odds with the ideology of the postmodernists. This is why they hate it so much and are attempting to destroy it.

June 1, 2022
Trans Politics is Not Women’s Politics

Trans Politics is Not Women’s Politics

“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” Gender policy is one such slow form of demise. The West does not need any external enemies to bring about the proverbial collapse of our civilization; we are doing it to ourselves.

May 31, 2022
Echoes from Ruby Ridge

Echoes from Ruby Ridge

A moral question lingers for both Americans and Europeans, 30 years after the Ruby Ridge incident: do we as citizens have the right to isolate ourselves and effectively secede from the rest of society? If we try to do so, does the government have the right to intervene and force us back under its jurisdiction?

May 29, 2022
The U.S. and EU Imagine No Borders—Except for Ukraine

The U.S. and EU Imagine No Borders—Except for Ukraine

A misinformed ideal of humanitarianism has American and European ruling parties recklessly pushing open borders without considering the costs or long-term consequences—not just for the host country but also for the mass influx of immigrants.

A Dark Day for Nordic Democracy

A Dark Day for Nordic Democracy

Finland and Sweden should consider what it means for the reputability of NATO itself, when two supposedly sound democracies must abandon all democratic procedure in order to apply for membership.

May 24, 2022
Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Opening of CPAC Hungary

Speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán at the Opening of CPAC Hungary

“The only way to win is to refuse to accept the solutions and the paths offered by others. As Churchill said, having enemies is a sure sign that you are doing something right.”—Viktor Orbán