
The Merz Affair and Germany’s War on Free Speech
In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them.

In a democracy, citizens must have the right to express their frustration with those who govern them.

Teresa Gerns, the Council of Europe advocacy director for the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe, will lead a committee examining the barriers women face when trying to balance paid work and motherhood.

Every April 23rd, as sure as night follows day, the UK commentariat loves to sneer at ordinary English people.

When peace among nations becomes the ultimate end of religion, religions are reduced to geopolitical instruments.

For progressives, ‘liberalism’ now means ‘the compelled acceptance and legal implementation of LGBT ideology.’ To oppose it, conversely, is thus ‘illiberalism.’

Britain doesn’t need to learn any more lessons—it needs the will to act.
Moral vanity is the sin into which we can all too easily fall when our ethical model becomes one of fleeing evil, not imitating goodness.

Seeking to defend the family within the discourse of modern rights is like trying to save Gondor by using the Ring.

Ultimately, the question is not simply why governments fall but how their opponents win.

To save the West, we must look to our civilizational roots and embody them in the advances of the future.
For progressives, ‘liberalism’ now means ‘the compelled acceptance and legal implementation of LGBT ideology.’ To oppose it, conversely, is thus ‘illiberalism.’
Britain doesn’t need to learn any more lessons—it needs the will to act.
Moral vanity is the sin into which we can all too easily fall when our ethical model becomes one of fleeing evil, not imitating goodness.
Seeking to defend the family within the discourse of modern rights is like trying to save Gondor by using the Ring.
Ultimately, the question is not simply why governments fall but how their opponents win.
To save the West, we must look to our civilizational roots and embody them in the advances of the future.
In the clash of wills between the White House and the Vatican, it is already clear that the vast majority of Catholics will rather side with their pope than with the president of the United States.
The effort to ‘AfD-proof’ Saxony-Anhalt is only the latest in a series of measures taken over recent months and years to weaken and marginalise the populists.
The underlying grievance of Western critics is not a lack of democracy, but rather our refusal to simply nod in agreement with the Brussels consensus.
A civilization without children does not have a future. A civilization that kills its own children does not deserve one.
Those who most need Orbán’s policies are no longer in Hungary but across a Europe that von der Leyen’s policies have helped turn into increasingly soulless nations.
Spain’s latest assisted suicide should sober the ardor of ‘right-to-die’ advocates everywhere.