In this episode of ‘Occasional Dialogues,’ Alvino-Mario Fantini sits down with Johnny Burtka to discuss the lost tradition of ‘mirrors for princes’ and his new book “Gateway to Statesmanship: Selections from Xenophon to Churchill.”

Chega presents the possibility of a radical change in Portugal.

“One of Brussels’ main aims is to diminish, limit, and to take away the member states’ sovereign decision-making rights by every means possible.”

Sven Larson discusses economic lessons from Sweden’s collapse 30 years ago, its government today, and what America can learn from the Swedish and European economies.

Anti-natalism leads to societal decay and a decline in overall happiness.

“If you want to have a rules-based international order, you shouldn’t penalize Poland or Hungary for having [views] that are different from Brussels.”

“The globalist Right and the ecological extremist Left have found a common enemy: European agriculture.”

Pope Benedict XVI understood that Christ’s message is scandalous to the world.

Eastern Europeans are perturbed by the susceptibility of the privileged, rich West to these foolish moralistic ideas.

I want Christians to understand the intelligible reasons for our ethical convictions.

For five years, the Commission turned its back on the Western Balkan countries, the enlargement chief said, but now “the EU means business.”

Inscrutability is an advantage, because those who don’t understand their counterparts have already lost.