Category: Essay

Democratic Criteria and the Scope of Religious Freedom in Sweden

To label one’s opponents as ‘antidemocratic’ may make rhetorical sense, but if the values held as sacred have no foundation besides being considered so by the majority, they will inevitably fail when significant minorities beg to differ. 

Africa: No Continent for Utopian Ideas

Africa is the ultimate ‘red pill.’ Fundamental facts and basic truths lying just under a thin surface of dusty terrain are easily laid bare because they are not hidden under thick concrete layers of distortions and lies repeated over and over.

Pax Mongolica, Part II: Beyond Profit and Punishment

The fruits of conquest—even when sown by a vicious desire for profit or punishment—can, in time, be conquered by the conquered, turned to the advantage of a besieged people. The debt of European modernity to Mongolian expansion illustrates this.

Soros: Funding Catalan Separatism

University professor Antonio de Castro mapped a network of foreign entities he saw as responsible for promoting Catalan separatism, with factions within the establishment foreign super powers weakening Spain to further their interests.

The Bolivar Legacy
Part I: In Search of a Past

Bolivar is part of Latin American identity, but in order to transcend the limits of his legacy, he must be understood as the repentant revolutionary that he was. Were he a hero, he would be a tragic one.

Light Above Politics

Politicians come and go, but the monarch provides continuity in the life of a nation that looks beyond the moment.

SDP Party Conference 2022

The normality of the attendees can perhaps be described by the self-defined “common sense” approach of the party, coupled with broad policies rather than a one-trick-pony approach often associated with marginal parties.

June: The Month of Romanticism!

June: The Month of Romanticism!

June, then, is a time of taking stock of the wonderful inheritance that those who stand for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful have been given.

Lives for Sale: The Hidden Horrors of Ukraine’s Surrogacy Industry

Lives for Sale: The Hidden Horrors of Ukraine’s Surrogacy Industry

Why are we allowing corporations to profit both from the desperation of people struggling with infertility and women in poverty?

Towards A New Fusionism:<br>Postliberals, Claremonsters, and American Conservative Consensus

Towards A New Fusionism:<br>Postliberals, Claremonsters, and American Conservative Consensus

Can the lived conservatism of the Postliberals find common ground—and common political cause—with the universalist notions of natural right, justice and equality espoused by the Claremont School? On this question, I believe, hinges the fate of a new conservative fusionism updated to meet the challenges of our time.

July 3, 2022
Rewilding and the Future of Humankind

Rewilding and the Future of Humankind

Restoring our proper relationship with the natural world, it must be asserted, does not entail a retreat from nature, but a renewed immersion in its mystery and a humble submission to its laws.

July 2, 2022
The Death of Roe v. Wade

The Death of Roe v. Wade

How is it that the greatest of all democracies has been transfixed by abortion politics for decades? The answer is simple and unpopular: It is because there is still a battle being waged for the soul of America.

June 30, 2022
The Social Engineering Grimoire

The Social Engineering Grimoire

We are subject to a host of techniques by which social control is exerted and through which traditional institutions are eroded. What follows is an attempt to catalogue the array of spells in the grimoire of our political elites.

The Abuses of Self-Entrepreneurship

The Abuses of Self-Entrepreneurship

Only a society of narcissists, concerned only with the endless accumulation of their own egos, would treat both the born and unborn as objects to be manipulated, consumed, and discarded in the process of ego-production.

June 29, 2022
Playgrounds & Parallel Societies:<br>My Journey to Sweden’s Most Notorious ‘No-Go’ Zone in Malmö

Playgrounds & Parallel Societies:<br>My Journey to Sweden’s Most Notorious ‘No-Go’ Zone in Malmö

Swedes and well-to-do people of all nationalities living closer to the center need not ever visit this district. So much the better to sustain the ‘playground narrative.’ On the other hand, the distance grants Rosengård residents space to avoid Swedish cultural norms, such as women’s equality and western attire, as well as at least some of the prying eyes of the Swedish government. This place is, by any definition, a parallel society.

June 27, 2022
The Ethics of Aesthetics

The Ethics of Aesthetics

Art is meant to elevate us. It provides a mirror through which we see ourselves anew and glimpse the structures of our predicament.

War and the Fate of Europe: Jan Patočka’s Political Testament, Part II

War and the Fate of Europe: Jan Patočka’s Political Testament, Part II

Patočka detests the World Wars. But there is, in them, a certain ‘divinity,’ a certain ‘saving potential,’ because—at the Front, as within the Church—‘all humans are equal before the face of the ultimate reality.’

June 26, 2022
The Problem of Christian Safetyism

The Problem of Christian Safetyism

Undeterred by his trials and compelled by curiosity, the Apostle Paul wears no mask; he mutes and stifles no truth that might advance the Gospel—no matter the cost.

June 25, 2022
Mushrooms and the Future: Why We Should Pay Attention to Fungi

Mushrooms and the Future: Why We Should Pay Attention to Fungi

Mushrooms are teachers, and we ought to learn from them.

June 24, 2022