Category: COMMENTARY

How Trump Loyalists Are Taking Over American Media

Trump’s allies are buying up America’s media giants as lawsuits weaken the old guard, reshaping the country’s information landscape—but the takeover looks driven more by power and money than by a coherent conservative vision.

Maison de Colette à Cagne by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1912), Museo Soumaya, Mexico City (image cropped)

Ethnic Memory: Why Societies Should Be Monoethnic

Multiculturalists who dismiss concerns about Islamic or African immigration by comparing them with past hostility to Irish, Italian, or Slavic immigrants overlook the vast differences in ethnic memory and cultural distance that can make integration more difficult.

The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

Susan Neiman is right to challenge the excesses of identity politics—but wrong to treat them as an alien intrusion. The ideas behind today’s politics of identity grew from within the Left itself, raising a deeper question about whether it can escape the intellectual path that led it here.

The Jason Arday Case: Identity Over Integrity

The Jason Arday affair suggests that Britain’s academic establishment became so eager to celebrate an emblematic success story that it neglected the ordinary standards of verification expected of every scholar.

Homer in an Age of Revisionism

Homer’s epics are foundational to Western civilization. Their reinterpretation should enrich our understanding of the classical tradition, not distort its historical and cultural legacy.

How Trump Loyalists Are Taking Over American Media

How Trump Loyalists Are Taking Over American Media

Trump’s allies are buying up America’s media giants as lawsuits weaken the old guard, reshaping the country’s information landscape—but the takeover looks driven more by power and money than by a coherent conservative vision.

Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

Vatican–China Contentious Accord: How the Holy See Is Appeasing a Communist Regime

By continuing the agreement with the CCP, the Vatican is essentially supporting its distortion of religious practices and is perilously nearing complicity in the escalating human rights violations within the country.

August 26, 2026
Ethnic Memory: Why Societies Should Be Monoethnic

Ethnic Memory: Why Societies Should Be Monoethnic

Multiculturalists who dismiss concerns about Islamic or African immigration by comparing them with past hostility to Irish, Italian, or Slavic immigrants overlook the vast differences in ethnic memory and cultural distance that can make integration more difficult.

August 25, 2026
The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

The Illusion of a Left Without Woke

Susan Neiman is right to challenge the excesses of identity politics—but wrong to treat them as an alien intrusion. The ideas behind today’s politics of identity grew from within the Left itself, raising a deeper question about whether it can escape the intellectual path that led it here.

Poland Shows How Religion Can Be Removed from Public Life Without Being Banned

Poland Shows How Religion Can Be Removed from Public Life Without Being Banned

Administrative secularisation is quiet by design. Its instruments are technical; its consequences are not.

August 20, 2026
From Adenauer to Spahn: The Unraveling of Germany’s Christian Democratic Tradition

From Adenauer to Spahn: The Unraveling of Germany’s Christian Democratic Tradition

The CDU once sought to anchor postwar Germany in a Christian vision of human dignity and moral order. Today, its symbols remain while the convictions behind them fade.

August 9, 2026
The Jason Arday Case: Identity Over Integrity

The Jason Arday Case: Identity Over Integrity

The Jason Arday affair suggests that Britain’s academic establishment became so eager to celebrate an emblematic success story that it neglected the ordinary standards of verification expected of every scholar.

August 7, 2026
Homer in an Age of Revisionism

Homer in an Age of Revisionism

Homer’s epics are foundational to Western civilization. Their reinterpretation should enrich our understanding of the classical tradition, not distort its historical and cultural legacy.

August 5, 2026
Whatever Happened to Dignity?

Whatever Happened to Dignity?

How ‘SlutWalk’ changed the conversation about women—and why it matters.

August 3, 2026
The Constitutional Coup and the Building of an Authoritarian Regime in Hungary

The Constitutional Coup and the Building of an Authoritarian Regime in Hungary

Péter Magyar and the Tisza Party are dismantling democratic Hungary as we have known it since 1990.

August 2, 2026
Germany’s Cultural Suicide

Germany’s Cultural Suicide

From Berlin’s dawn trains to a near-miss in Hamburg and a quiet Hessian town, one traveller returns to a Germany he once loved—and finds it changed in ways that leave him unsettled.

August 1, 2026
Not Just an Invasion—but Surrender

Not Just an Invasion—but Surrender

The mass crossings at Ceuta and Melilla expose the consequences of a political class that has traded border security for ideological commitments.

July 31, 2026