Category: COMMENTARY

The Horrors of Cuba’s Prisons

The president denies Cuba has political prisoners—yet an increasing number of dissidents are being jailed under brutal conditions.

Pilgrimage at the Spanish Steps

The legendary steps serve as a reminder that in a world consumed by short-term thinking, we’ve lost sight of the kinds of wealth that don’t show up on a balance sheet.

The Hypocrisy of Progressive Europe

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

Why Today’s Silicon Valley Will Never Save the West

Why Today’s Silicon Valley Will Never Save the West

To save the West, we must look to our civilizational roots and embody them in the advances of the future.

April 18, 2026
Europe’s Conservative Catholics Won’t Put Up With Trump’s Attacks on the Pope

Europe’s Conservative Catholics Won’t Put Up With Trump’s Attacks on the Pope

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.

April 17, 2026
German Establishment Parties Plan Law Change To Prevent True Democracy

German Establishment Parties Plan Law Change To Prevent True Democracy

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.

April 17, 2026
Illiberalism Is Not an Ideology—It Is a Common-Sense Revolution

Illiberalism Is Not an Ideology—It Is a Common-Sense Revolution

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.

April 16, 2026
Abortion Is a Luxury Europe Cannot Afford

Abortion Is a Luxury Europe Cannot Afford

A civilization without children does not have a future. A civilization that kills its own children does not deserve one.

April 16, 2026
Sovereignist Parties Will Become Even More Important After Orbán’s Defeat

Sovereignist Parties Will Become Even More Important After Orbán’s Defeat

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.

April 16, 2026
Awakened by Euthanasia?

Awakened by Euthanasia?

Spain’s latest assisted suicide should sober the ardor of ‘right-to-die’ advocates everywhere.

Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk

Germany’s Authoritarian Liberals Have Gone Berserk

Perfectly legal acts of political opposition to the establishment can lead an individual to suffer real, painful measures of state coercion.

April 14, 2026
Colonial Restitutions: Moral Illusion and Disarmament of Cultural Heritage

Colonial Restitutions: Moral Illusion and Disarmament of Cultural Heritage

France is becoming entangled in a misguided sense of repentance that is detrimental to cultural works and the preservation of heritage.

April 13, 2026
Hungary’s Advantage at Risk in Tisza’s Brussels Bargain

Hungary’s Advantage at Risk in Tisza’s Brussels Bargain

It would be a fool’s errand for Hungary to go to Brussels and submit to policies that are directly harmful to Hungary in exchange for an unfreezing of EU funding.

April 11, 2026
How One Former Migrant Exposed Germany’s Contempt for Free Speech

How One Former Migrant Exposed Germany’s Contempt for Free Speech

It is a telling sign of our times that a movement claiming to oppose racism relies so heavily on censorship.

April 11, 2026
The Case of Alsace: A Quest for Identity

The Case of Alsace: A Quest for Identity

Thinking in terms of functional regions with which no one identifies simply doesn’t work: Europe would do well to give this some thought.

April 10, 2026