Category: COMMENTARY

The Constitution of Victory

Péter Magyar has won power but also inherited the constitutional logic that defined the country for a third of a century.

The Second English Revolution

The surge of the populist Right in England’s local elections is a sucker punch to the sneering cultural elites.

The Lost Boy

Germany cannot complain about skills shortages, weak productivity, democratic alienation, and social fragmentation while ignoring the boys who are slowly leaving the educational pipeline.

God or No God in Our Constitution?

Rather than lifting us out of our current political trench warfare, the dispute over a reference to God in the Saarland constitutional preamble merely illuminates it.

Secular Europe’s Failure: Why Only Christ Can Stop Islamization

Secular Europe’s Failure: Why Only Christ Can Stop Islamization

The urgent question for Europe is why are Muslims converting to Christianity in places where the faith is banned, persecuted, or heavily restricted—yet in open, tolerant Europe, with welcoming churches on every corner, many grow firmer in Islam and some even become radicalized?

May 6, 2026
After Sánchez’ Migrant Regularisation: 3 Murders in 48 Hours

After Sánchez’ Migrant Regularisation: 3 Murders in 48 Hours

The Left tried to pass off the latest jihadist attack in Barcelona—when an immigrant stabbed a minor in broad daylight invoking the name of Allah—as ‘femicide.’

May 6, 2026
Big Cuts, Little Will: Proposed French State Media Reforms Likely To Go Nowhere

Big Cuts, Little Will: Proposed French State Media Reforms Likely To Go Nowhere

A radical cost-cutting plan for French public broadcasting is on the table—but unlikely to be implemented.

Culture Wars: When National Culture Is Viewed as a Threat

Culture Wars: When National Culture Is Viewed as a Threat

Saxony-Anhalt’s AfD seeks healthy national pride through patriotic cultural policy. The establishment calls it fascism.

Is Foreign Election Interference Acceptable When It Aligns With EU Priorities?

Is Foreign Election Interference Acceptable When It Aligns With EU Priorities?

Withholding billions in EU funds was widely seen as economic coercion, deliberately timed to hurt Hungarian voters and weaken Orbán ahead of the election.

May 5, 2026
Woke Archaeology

Woke Archaeology

‘Decolonial’ thinking provides a moral alibi that allows socialist failures to be presented as the inevitable effects of an omnipresent ‘coloniality’ that cannot be eradicated as long as any ties to the West remain.

Between the Cross and the Flag: May 3 in Communist Poland

Between the Cross and the Flag: May 3 in Communist Poland

When people feel their identity is under threat, they find ways—visible or invisible—to defend it.

Leo XIV Recognises Another 49 Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

Leo XIV Recognises Another 49 Catholic Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War

The timing of the new recognitions suggests Leo is paying attention to what is happening in Spain—and signalling that neither the anti-Catholic abuses of the past nor those of the present will be ignored.

Britain Needs a Bastard

Britain Needs a Bastard

Leaders are simply better—more effective, more popular at their peaks, more trusted in the moments that matter—precisely when they refuse to pretend they are better than the rest of us.

May 2, 2026
When the Center Cracks, Sovereignty Speaks: Romania’s Political Reversal

When the Center Cracks, Sovereignty Speaks: Romania’s Political Reversal

Romanians are not rejecting Europe. They are rejecting a politics that hides behind Europe—one in which outcomes are perceived as shaped in Brussels rather than decided at home.

May 1, 2026
Iran’s Underground Church in Wartime

Iran’s Underground Church in Wartime

Amid harsh persecution and an internet blackout, Iran’s house-church movement continues to grow as believers preach, serve their communities, and face intensified state crackdowns.

<em>What If Reform Wins?</em>—A Political Scare Story

<em>What If Reform Wins?</em>—A Political Scare Story

A UK journalist’s just-published book imagines Britain under a Nigel Farage premiership—but despite being billed as a “non-fiction thriller,” it may frighten readers less than the country’s current trajectory.

April 30, 2026