Category: COMMENTARY

Suella: Brave Decision on Stop and Search

A Braverman than most, the UK’s home secretary has called upon Britain’s 43 police forces to “ramp up” their use of stop and search in order to “save more lives,” a decision for which she deserves to be commended.

On National Identity

What is national identity? An experience of a nation, its history, its personalities, its reputation, self-esteem, and the vision it has for its future.

The Left: Capitalism’s Enzyme

If one’s intention is to dominate the other, it is inconvenient for him to come to the negotiation table with a definite position and personality. Better to convince him that he has no definite identity.

Degrowth Is Growing, From Top and Bottom

Degrowthers want to slow down the global social and economic ‘metabolism’ by prioritising human need as the purpose for production instead of growing GDP.

Tolkien’s True Love

The values of Tolkien’s world are not those of moral relativism, but those of the traditional Christian conception of courtship and romantic loyalty, in which the intimate aspects of love are treated with discretion and respect that protects their nobility.

EU Environmental Policies are Out of Control

EU Environmental Policies are Out of Control

At the EU level, environmental policies are mostly being continued as if there were no Russian invasion of Ukraine or large-scale energy crisis.

September 9, 2022
Recession or Not? Part I

Recession or Not? Part I

While it is correct that a recession is defined by two consecutive quarters of declining GDP, it is not correct that the American GDP declined two quarters in a row. Unfortunately, all the economists and analysts who made the recession call were wrong.

September 2, 2022
Racism vs Sexism: How Islam Weaponised Inclusivity

Racism vs Sexism: How Islam Weaponised Inclusivity

Universalism is forced to coexist with diversity and inclusion; one has to agree that patriarchy, aristocracy and capitalism were evil unless they are not white. But deeper divides force progressives to either keep their eyes shut or risk becoming the oppressors.

September 2, 2022
Karl May’s Winnetou Draws Eye of the Woke

Karl May’s Winnetou Draws Eye of the Woke

Out of caution not to be seen as inflicting “racist stereotypes” upon consumers or purveying material rife with “cultural appropriation,” German publisher Ravensburger anticipates canceling Winnetou as part of its future offerings.

August 30, 2022
Turning the World Upside Down: Observations after Six Months of War

Turning the World Upside Down: Observations after Six Months of War

24 February 2022 will be a dark date written in the annals of world history.

August 29, 2022
An Open Letter Responding to the NatCon “Statement of Principles”

An Open Letter Responding to the NatCon “Statement of Principles”

In June, we published the Statement of Principles. We hoped it would elicit discussion and debate. This letter is what we hope is the first in a series of commentaries on the topic. The signatories say, “In its list of ideals — ‘patriotism and courage, honor and loyalty, religion and wisdom, congregation and family, man and woman, the sabbath and the sacred, and reason and justice’—no mention was made of friendship, compassion, or love.”

August 29, 2022
American Public Designation: The ‘Liberal’ Fatwa Machine

American Public Designation: The ‘Liberal’ Fatwa Machine

If the U.S., or the UK, purport to keep wielding the holy swords of justice, they should do so with reasonable foresight in order that their actions do not end up making messy local realities even messier.

August 28, 2022
Irony-Poisoned: Against the Online Content Mill

Irony-Poisoned: Against the Online Content Mill

We are addicted to snarky commentary and the daily-churning of vacuous novelty. We won’t really be champions of anything like ‘tradition’ so long as we remain mired in these postmodern poisons.

August 27, 2022
Too Young to Lead

Too Young to Lead

The point with the minimum age is not the number, but the notion that statesmanship is a slowly acquired asset. It takes time to build the experience, the skills, and all the intangible qualities that the leader of a nation must possess.

August 27, 2022
Socialism in the Constitution

Socialism in the Constitution

It is time for conservatives to realize just how deviously the socialist side has moved the fence and redrawn the map.

August 25, 2022
Media & the Culture War:<br>Everything Old is New Again

Media & the Culture War:<br>Everything Old is New Again

We create the alternative media to the mainstream purveyors of politically motivated mis- and dis-information. These platforms are robust, growing, and wholly necessary to preserve real freedom and real justice.

August 23, 2022
Swedes Face Tough Election in September

Swedes Face Tough Election in September

Since the last election, which was held in September 2018, Sweden has been through three episodes of open political instability.

August 22, 2022