
Reality Check | Ep. 5 | David Schindler & The Politics of the Real
Jan Bentz speaks to Dr. David C. Schindler from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family about the reality of politics—and how politics can be based on reality.

Jan Bentz speaks to Dr. David C. Schindler from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family about the reality of politics—and how politics can be based on reality.

The West lacks leaders capable of strategic thinking in key positions.

The French Left used to be perhaps the strongest anti-woke left-wing force in the West. But that’s crumbling.

For the first time in America’s history, the culture views Christianity unfavourably.

“Don’t throw away your culture and history on the funeral pyre of multiculturalism and the chimera of economic growth.”

Jan Bentz speaks to Fr. Michael Baggot about the unholy goals of the transhumanism movement.

“It is always regrettable and always disruptive to have a leader step down from his throne, but it is sometimes the right thing,” says Peter Kwasniewski.

In places where the Islamic population is growing, our identity is being lost.

If Milei succeeds, Argentina will once again be the best country in the world.

“In Brussels, we need MEPs who represent national interests instead of the foreign ones, the European people instead of illegal migration, and the cause of peace instead of war!”
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.
“They are systematically destroying us, and people who earn money and pay taxes notice that first because they feel it in their wallets.”
All Western nations face similar threats: the restriction of our freedoms, the dissolution of our identities, the undermining of the nation-state, and the elimination of the middle- and working-class.
We will only be able to get ahead with a free market, a smaller state, and by giving facilities to the individual.
FROM THE WINTER 2024 PRINT EDITION:
My ambition is for Reconquête’s ideas to win in France and in Europe.
It is frightening that many other democracies are silent about what’s happening in Poland.
“The [German] government has already collapsed, but is hanging on to its fading power.”
Take a journey into the English countryside with Sebastian Morello as he, Charlie Pye-Smith, and Jim Barrington discuss the consequences of Tony Blair’s 2004 ban on hunting with hounds, the effects of this ban for both wildlife and rural communities two decades later, and the future of hunting with hounds in the UK.
This movement shows “there is still a spirit of reconquest, of returning to what Spain was—and not allowing it to become something else entirely.”
We did not choose modernity, but we can choose how to live within it.