Category: COMMENTARY

Stop the Global Wealth Tax!

So long as there is something moving in the economy, socialists will always want to subject it to existing taxes. If they can’t do that, they will invent a new tax.

Bright Horizons: Taking a Dim View of Girls

Bright Horizons sparked outrage with a pamphlet which offers advice on raising “children who identify as female.” It encouraged parents to stop using ‘gender-influenced’ terms like princess and tomboy.

The Case of Katalin Cseh: the Power of Mediocrity

Katalin Cseh’s behaviour is the paradigmatic example of the mediocrity of “clickbait politicians.” Overrepresented in the EP, they seem to forget that statesmanship is much more than likes and retweets.

The New Enclosure: Rise of the Jail-Cell City

The 15-minute city limits access to what was hitherto experienced as common property, not subject to legislative abrogation. In this sense, we face a second enclosure, a violation of the commons.

MCC Brussels: A World of Conflict Awaits

“Europeans, you’ll have to change your sneakers to military boots in the coming decades,” a senior security expert said at the conference aimed to decipher the geopolitical shift of the coming decades.

January 6th: In the End, Trump Wins

The January 6th committee suppressed 41,000 hours of video footage that showed there was no insurrection. Now the truth is out, and the consequences will be formidable.

The Desecration of Dahl

Sterilising works of art and meddling with genius you couldn’t begin to replicate is like replacing Monet with Damian Hirst and then claiming what you lose in beauty, you gain in less discriminatory ink splats.

Meloni vs. the Swamp: Italy’s New Political Reality

Meloni vs. the Swamp: Italy’s New Political Reality

Italy, it seems, has for some time abandoned politics and sanity and given full power to non-elected technocrats and politicians. Giorgia Meloni offers a way back to normalcy.

February 15, 2022
Abortion: The Battle of the European Lobbies

Abortion: The Battle of the European Lobbies

These attacks on the rights of the unborn child are not isolated initiatives. They are well thought out and coordinated. A survey by the European Centre for Law and Justice reveals the existence of a real pro-abortion lobby within the European institutions.

February 14, 2022
Islamist Party Likely to Win Seats in Swedish Parliament

Islamist Party Likely to Win Seats in Swedish Parliament

There is nothing dramatic per se about a new party in the Riksdag. What is unique about the new party Nyans emerging in the 2022 election cycle is that it springs from the Islamist environment in Sweden.

February 13, 2022
The Lost Cause of Libertarianism

The Lost Cause of Libertarianism

More than any other ideological current in the political landscape, libertarianism exhibits a phenomenal penchant for splinter-grouping. Today, they pitch a big tent shared by abortion advocates, drug legalizers, Rothbard-inspired anarcho-capitalists, and Ayn Rand objectivists.

February 11, 2022
The Gods of the Valley are Not the Gods of the Hills

The Gods of the Valley are Not the Gods of the Hills

I spent part of the Christmas Season in the American state where I spent most of my childhood: Vermont. Known

February 11, 2022
The Problem of An Urban Eschaton

The Problem of An Urban Eschaton

Whilst escape from the city for the sake of prayer and meditation is a recurring motif of Western literature, and one that plays an important role in the life of Jesus Christ, one of the great achievements of our civilisation has been that of sanctifying the city.

February 11, 2022
Drawing the Lines for Cold War II

Drawing the Lines for Cold War II

Today’s Russia is not yesterday’s Soviet Union. What Putin does to his country is unacceptable, but unlike the leaders of the communist state of the last century, he does not have an ideology that compels him to eliminate the economic and political system of the West.

February 9, 2022
Is EU Law More ‘Conservative’ than American Law?

Is EU Law More ‘Conservative’ than American Law?

The authors argue that the high courts of the Council of Europe and the EU are actually more ‘conservative’ than the Supreme Court of the United States on almost every polarising topic today.

Macron, Vaccination, and the Freedom to be Foolish

Macron, Vaccination, and the Freedom to be Foolish

Health is to the political class what money is to bankers: an inexhaustible source legitimation of their exercise of power.

February 8, 2022
Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground Over Pronouns

Words as Weapons: Why We Must Stand Our Ground Over Pronouns

Language is the first domino in the war over reality—and pronouns have nothing to do with politeness and everything to do with ideological submission.

February 7, 2022
The Last Adult: Reflections on the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

The Last Adult: Reflections on the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II

Where the rest of the world’s leaders seem intent on impressing us with themselves, she appears to respond in the opposite manner—with quiet duty.

February 6, 2022
Demoting Life to a Moral Instrument

Demoting Life to a Moral Instrument

Government says that a person is not alive until deep into the pregnancy. The motive is instrumental: when we legally sever the beginning of life from conception, we allow for another moral value to be elevated above life itself. That moral value works as an ulterior motive for the legal definition of life.

February 4, 2022