Category: COMMENTARY

They/Them Who Art in Heaven

If you stand for everything, you stand for nothing. An ‘inclusive’ Church is a building without roof or doors—it serves no purpose. If the Anglican Church wishes to survive, it would do well to nip this non-binary nonsense in the bud.

Closing Time for Free Speech

As national security trumps individual freedom, Sweden will curtail freedom of speech piecemeal, like death from a thousand cuts.

Shoulder-Shrugging Conservatism

If they wish to be governing forces like in Hungary and Israel, conservatives must not mind being hated.

Ecclesiastical Newspeak and the Hatred of Catholic Tradition

Ecclesiastical Newspeak and the Hatred of Catholic Tradition

Catholics are surrounded by the upside-down chatter of ecclesiastical newspeak, and it is here to stay, that is, until a rediscovery that the Church derives her purpose from the Great Commission—the mandate to make disciples of all nations, and this cannot be substituted.

January 14, 2022
Has a New “Xi’an City” COVID Variant with Ebola-like Symptoms Escaped China?

Has a New “Xi’an City” COVID Variant with Ebola-like Symptoms Escaped China?

The CCP is little more than an international crime syndicate with political affectations. Knowing what is going on in China is dependent on sifting through their official lies, deflections, and ‘dezinformatsiya.’ The fact is, we just don’t know what unleashed monster they’re running from in Xi’an. All we know is that the CCP is lying about it.

January 13, 2022
Hey, Brussels: Learn Hungarian!

Hey, Brussels: Learn Hungarian!

For the uninitiated, ‘gendering’ is a new phenomenon in Woke High German. It means attaching a horribly out-of-place asterisk and the feminine ending of a word to the masculine noun. Woke High German leads to orthographic monstrosities like Verkäufer*in, Bürgermeister*innen, or even Studierende*r.

January 13, 2022
Turkey: A Textbook Example of Bad Inflation Policy

Turkey: A Textbook Example of Bad Inflation Policy

High and rising inflation has put yet more pressure on the Turkish lira, but instead of making the hard choices to curb inflation, the response from President Erdogan’s government is likely to aggravate the situation.

January 12, 2022
Fearmongering as a Business Model

Fearmongering as a Business Model

Reporting on the link between palm oil and cancer is just one example of how the mainstream media avoids fair and balanced reporting, and squelches moderate voices. Some media, besides pushing an ideological agenda, try to make money by stirring up fear.

January 12, 2022
Wu-hoo!

Wu-hoo!

I promised myself that I would ignore the global panic that has taken the world over (one might say it has ‘gone viral’) and substituted itself for every other known psycho-pathology. But the U-turn by the international commentariat was too much of a gift to satire to be missed.

January 11, 2022
The Euro at 20: A Failed Experiment

The Euro at 20: A Failed Experiment

The common currency was a gigantic economic experiment, an application of political preferences rather than the product of sound scholarly research. As is always the case with grand government plans, for every problem they solve a new one is created.

January 10, 2022
A Preliminary Look at the Spanish Government’s Recovery Fund Spending

A Preliminary Look at the Spanish Government’s Recovery Fund Spending

Spanish political life will polarize around those offering policies that have straightforwardly led to present difficulties, and those whose program has promised to drastically reduce a state whose regional level is notoriously hypertrophic and reindustrializing the country. VOX is the most obviously poised to take advantage of this. 

January 7, 2022
Vaccine-Nation

Vaccine-Nation

The Pandemic shall mutate into oblivion sometime relatively soon. When it does, we will all be left with the aftermath. Wrecked economies, shuttered businesses, and life opportunities lost are only a small part of it all. Worse still are the questions that may be asked. When the rulership had us put on our masks, they took off theirs. The experience of the past two years make plain a reality only a few saw before: the modern citizen has only those rights his rulers deign to give him, and these may be taken away at any time. In a word, the myth of democracy is dead.

January 7, 2022
No Insurrection: The U.S. Capitol Riot in Retrospect

No Insurrection: The U.S. Capitol Riot in Retrospect

President Trump is no longer considered guilty of having caused the storming of the Capitol. He is now being accused of not having stopped it. This is not a shift in the nuance of the narrative regarding his role: it is a substantial retreat.

January 6, 2022
Escaping the Triangle: Rene Girard and the Professional Managerial Class

Escaping the Triangle: Rene Girard and the Professional Managerial Class

The strategy of the super-woke failson anticipates resistance by using terms and premises that the establishment cannot rebuff without rebuffing its own basis. He acts as real-world, unpaid HR department officer. This is a means for proving his ambition and ability to police discourse, that is, his managerial competence. At bare minimum, this provides an escape valve for the frustrated failson to take his anger out on culturally deprivileged groups (‘hicks,’ ‘deplorables’) while reinforcing hegemonic discourse.

January 6, 2022
Useful Crisis: European Union Looking at New Emergency Powers

Useful Crisis: European Union Looking at New Emergency Powers

One of the fundamental laws of government powers is that they always invite mission-creep expansion. Laws that begin their lives as benevolent instruments for the common good can easily morph into tools of power for the sake of power itself. As the EU Commission finalizes its proposal for a Single Market Emergency Instrument, the citizens of the EU are well advised to keep themselves informed of that proposal.

January 5, 2022