Category: COMMENTARY

VOX’s Bridge to Nowhere

VOX’s no-confidence motion to oust PM Pedro Sánchez amounts to little more than a gimmick.

The European Commission Is Undermining EU Cooperation

The EU is far from perfect, but there was a time when it at least supported a framework that guaranteed free and fair competition between member states. It is tragic to see the European Commission undermining this very thing.

Farm to Fork Strategy Meeting Strong Resistance

The EU’s Farm to Fork policy is not only facing strong opposition from agribusiness, but even the commissioner responsible for agriculture has expressed his reservations.

Spain’s European Moment

Spain’s upcoming turn at holding the EU Council Presidency is a high-stakes opportunity likely to be missed.

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.

The Elections of Castilla y León and the Future of the Spanish Right

The Elections of Castilla y León and the Future of the Spanish Right

The purpose of the center-Right in Spain is to flank the Left’s agenda, but the regional elections in Castilla y Leon have revealed that its electorate is no longer willing to go along with this.

February 22, 2022
Homer and Heroic Freedom

Homer and Heroic Freedom

Protesting to assert our rights might give us a solution Achilles didn’t have when he contested Agamemnon’s authority. But we also lack something Achilles had—heroism—and so we find ourselves powerless.

February 21, 2022
Muting Democracy: How the European Parliament fails to “Unite in Diversity”

Muting Democracy: How the European Parliament fails to “Unite in Diversity”

“I am, under your criteria, considered to be anti-gender. Should I dis-activate myself, be eliminated from this hearing? I don’t think it seems to be very democratic in nature. Those who respect natural law are part of this society as well. We are pro-human dignity, pro-human beings, pro-human rights,” VOX MEP Margarita de la Pisa Carrión said at last week’s FEMM hearing.

February 17, 2022
Learning to Live with Multipolarity: the Scholz-Putin Meeting

Learning to Live with Multipolarity: the Scholz-Putin Meeting

The meeting between Olaf Scholz and Vladimir Putin made it clear that the West is no longer in the position to make demands to other world powers. The time has come to look inwards and protect our own values, rather than try to export them.

February 16, 2022
European Governments and Consulting Firms: Suspicious Affairs

European Governments and Consulting Firms: Suspicious Affairs

The consulting firm of the 21st century could well be the new face of the Soviet control commission—a machine with fixed codes and pre-formatted processes designed to mask facts and the banality of postmodern sovereignty.

February 16, 2022
Populism: A Word without Meaning

Populism: A Word without Meaning

Populism is a term often used to criticize conservatives. But when we take a closer look, those who use it don’t bother to define it. In fact, a closer look suggests that the term has no meaning of its own. All it means is—democracy.

February 16, 2022
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