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Labour Isn’t Listening

Starmer can’t stop insisting he’s a patriot, and that he wants to ‘make Brexit work.’ But these superficial gestures belie the same old policies, now served up in the most cynical and disingenuous ways possible.

Mario Laghos May 14, 2022

The Hubris of ESG Ratings

The green-social-justice movement is about to make sure that our downslope from prosperity to industrial poverty becomes even steeper.

Sven R. Larson May 13, 2022

The Rise of the Socialist Welfare State

In practice, the merger between mainstream Keynesian economics and welfare-state policy was exactly what drove most of Europe into its current state of stagnation.

Sven R. Larson May 11, 2022

The EU’s Crisis of Faith is Failing Victims of Persecution

This was an opportune moment for the EU to recommit to the protection of freedom of religion or belief by reinforcing the existing EU instruments aimed at doing so and highlighting cases concerning minorities where this right has been violated. Yet, it did the exact opposite.

Georgia du Plessis May 11, 2022

Economic Resiliency Post Pandemic: U.S. vs. the EU

While the U.S. has its economic problems, the runaway government debt being an ominous example, its unending reliance on domestic spending for domestic prosperity is a winning recipe over time.

Sven R. Larson May 9, 2022

On Natalist Narratives

Only by rediscovering a vision of the good life that reckons with the suffering inherent in human experience and conceives of individuals as social animals bound by duty to one another—Edmund Burke’s “partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn”—do we stand a chance of bending the rising generation’s egotism and make them want to grace their communities and nations with new human beings.

Jorge González-Gallarza May 7, 2022

Dr. Leslyn Lewis: Shaking up Canada’s Conservative Party

I have thought since her first run that Dr. Leslyn Lewis is a breath of fresh air—the outsider candidate that the Ottawa bubble and the Conservative Party needs. The Harper-clones have been at the top for a long time, but it is past time for a facelift.

Jonathon Van Maren May 7, 2022

The ‘Big Government’ Cultural Conservatism of Central Europe

The legacy of 20th century history has left the Right in Central Europe questioning what we are meant to conserve after 40 years of communism. Our task is not so much to preserve traditions, but to reawaken them and to establish new ones. This approach is more reactionary; Central European conservatism is combative, because it has to be.

Gergely Szilvay May 6, 2022

Energy Policy is Based on Hard Facts, Not on Ideology: The Case of Hungary

The Orbán cabinet has put in place the means for Hungary to be independent from Russian natural gas. In the course of 12 years, it built links to all possible alternative energy sources; the fact that a number of them are inoperable is due to other countries.

Mátyás Kohán May 5, 2022

Moral Computers? Trusting AI with Right and Wrong

Over time, as artificial intelligence gets more entrenched in the realm of moral decision-making, it is entirely possible that the AI’s used for those decisions become standardized. But is this desirable? The answer has less to do with the form under which the decision is made—an algorithm or a human brain—and more with what moral values the decision maker applies to the problem.

Sven R. Larson May 1, 2022

Category: COMMENTARY

Labour Isn’t Listening

The Hubris of ESG Ratings

The Rise of the Socialist Welfare State

The EU’s Crisis of Faith is Failing Victims of Persecution

Economic Resiliency Post Pandemic: U.S. vs. the EU

On Natalist Narratives

Dr. Leslyn Lewis: Shaking up Canada’s Conservative Party

The ‘Big Government’ Cultural Conservatism of Central Europe

Energy Policy is Based on Hard Facts, Not on Ideology: The Case of Hungary

Moral Computers? Trusting AI with Right and Wrong

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