Category: COMMENTARY

Cancel Culture: The Illusion of Justice

It is not activists’ sincere belief in the harm caused by ‘wrong words’ that is the problem, but their ill-founded hubris—their self-assumed role of holy avengers bringing the world to the ‘right side of history.’

Gig Worker Labour Movement Usurped by Spain’s Social Transition

Those working for online delivery platforms such as Uber Eats, Amazon Flex, or Deliveroo have seen their income drop dramatically without substantially improving their working conditions since Spain’s Rider Law went into effect in September 2021.

The Glory of the Cross

The transformative and hope-filled message of Good Friday is that our hate can be “turned to pity, and our pity to love.”

 Europe’s China Dilemma

Last week, von der Leyen said of China: “The story of our relationship is not yet written, and it need not be defensive.” Her visit to China begins today.

Let Us Pray

The right to freedom of religion and belief, enshrined in international law, includes the right to manifest one’s belief both in private and public. It is not for politicians or the government to dictate what words we direct toward God or to interpret religious scripture.

‘European Values’ Threaten European Security

The problem with legal unification in Europe is that it follows an agenda marketed as the protection of ‘European values.’ The question is: what are these values and who decides them?

Trump and America’s Moral Conscience

Trump and America’s Moral Conscience

When Donald Trump was elected president in 2016, media was brimming with stories about how he had somehow colluded with

April 11, 2022
French Election, Final Days: Could Macron Lose?

French Election, Final Days: Could Macron Lose?

For many months, the re-election of Emmanuel Macron has been taken for granted. But the French hate it when a scenario is imposed on them in advance.

April 8, 2022
Who Killed Jérémy Cohen?

Who Killed Jérémy Cohen?

Both Zemmour and Le Pen have tweeted about the possibility that this could be an anti-Semitic second or third-degree murder and that its late arrival on the news cycle could be premeditated.

The System of Dependence: Do We Need Unemployment Benefits?

The System of Dependence: Do We Need Unemployment Benefits?

Why endure work routine, long commutes, and hated bosses if one has an opportunity to sit back and enjoy even larger payments from the government? Not only is it simple, but it is also often more profitable.

April 6, 2022
The Hurdles to European Prosperity

The Hurdles to European Prosperity

Rather than sinking further into debt to maintain current, high levels of government spending, it is time for Europe’s leaders to fundamentally reconsider their economic and social policies. It is time for them to adopt an entirely new program for economic prosperity.

April 5, 2022
War: A Hideous Conspiracy against Gender Equality

War: A Hideous Conspiracy against Gender Equality

War plunges us into the depths of the darkness inflicted by man; but it also allows us to resurrect eternal forgotten truths. Among them is the reality that women are the sanctuary of life.

April 1, 2022
Crypto Currencies: The Good, the Bad, and the Government

Crypto Currencies: The Good, the Bad, and the Government

To highlight the basic nature of crypto currencies, we will focus on the two most popular: Bitcoin and Ethereum. These two cryptos differ much in the same way as gold-standard currency differs from fiat currency.

March 31, 2022
Defending Christendom

Defending Christendom

After the “death of God,” attested to by various 19th century philosophers, paganism is filling the vacuum left by Christianity. The problem with all this is not that it might disappear, something that will only concern believers; but rather that Christian civilization, Christendom, is crumbling

March 31, 2022
Transatlantic Lessons in Migration and National Identity

Transatlantic Lessons in Migration and National Identity

The liberal imperium’s impulses, born out of self-abnegation and self-hatred, have yielded much in the way of balkanization and civic strife. Mass migration and cultural dilution, zealously pursued as ends unto themselves, have not conduced to either human flourishing or the common good.

March 29, 2022
A Letter from Central Europe: To My Conservative Friends in the West and the East

A Letter from Central Europe: To My Conservative Friends in the West and the East

We conservatives of different persuasions, from the West, the East, and Central Europe, have a common responsibility: to do our best to conserve our political culture, as polished by the ideas of conservatism.

March 29, 2022
The World Needs a Post-Neocon America

The World Needs a Post-Neocon America

Russia bears the full moral and economic burden for the war, but it is also clear that America’s neoconservative doctrine is one of the losers in that conflict. It is time for the foreign-policy elite in Washington to accept that neoconservatism served America well during the Cold War, but should now be gracefully retired.

March 24, 2022
Beware the ‘Furor Teutonicus’: Hiding Germany’s Failed Energy Policies Behind War

Beware the ‘Furor Teutonicus’: Hiding Germany’s Failed Energy Policies Behind War

Germany has started to beat the drums of war, fueled by a desire to redeem its ancestral sins, and embracing the Russian scapegoat as a distraction from its failed energy politics.

March 22, 2022