A discussion with the author of Revolution, which recovers a little-known chapter of history: Spain’s decisive contribution to American independence.
“The comparative advantage of the West has always resided in its rich cultural capital.”
“Few leftists remember that the amnesty law, created in 1978 during Spain’s transition to democracy, also pardoned communists and separatist terrorists.”
“Previous generations gave poor answers, stemming from the dictatorship of relativism, expressed by saying, ‘it is good if it is true for you; it just isn’t true for me.’ That is superficial,” Father Daniel Ebert Steiner says.
East Germans are flocking to the AfD because they’ve lived through socialism once, Wolfgang Blume says—and they can see it returning in the increasingly socialist policies of the establishment parties.
“Migration is a structural reality that will remain part of Europe for decades to come.”
“The question is not only whether the West has the right values, but whether it has the power to defend them.”
The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.
“The European Union and the Council of Europe have developed dedicated mechanisms to combat antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred, while no equivalent framework exists to address anti-Christian hatred.
“While the rest of Europe was modernizing and spreading the ideas of the Enlightenment, the Greeks stayed in the dark behind the borders of the Muslim Ottoman Empire for centuries.”
For many people, the only enemy is Christianity, and that is why they support everything that goes against it.
“António Salazar was distrustful of the terms ‘right’ and ‘left’ and took his stand around a position of steady but unspectacular nationalism.”
