What should concern us, is the fact that government is trying to artificially reduce income differences, and in doing so is artificially expanding differences in wealth.
In what turned out to be his last public homily, delivered three days before he died, Cardinal Pell referred to the “heritage of Wojtyla and Ratzinger.” In addition to being courageous teachers of the Catholic faith, they were, Pell said, also “Europeans, examples of men with profound knowledge of the high culture of the Western world.”
One thing that was painfully missing was the kind of ‘common good conservatism’ that takes seriously the public nature of the moral law, which may have helped to bring to the conversation about race some lasting solutions.
The idea of a Europe in which Germany and France have a privileged position does not make sense to Meloni or to Italian conservatives—nor does one that considers countries like Hungary and Poland second-class members.
“I am kind of enamored with the idea of ‘dissident conservatism,’ especially since I am someone who is often described as a ‘disrupter.’ Frankly, this is a label that I relish.” —Kevin Roberts
In this episode of our ‘Occasional Dialogues’ series, Jan Bentz interviews Beatrix von Storch about the AfD, political turbulence in Germany, and conservatism in Europe.
I’m disappointed in the NDP [New Democracy Party] in Greece and the NDP [New Democracy Party] in Canada. They are different parties, but in both cases they’re merging into a leftist ‘uniparty.’ It’s as if we just let the parties get run by unelected technocrats who basically are telling us how to live our lives. That is not freedom.
Neoconservatism is an ideology that consists of two things: a Scandinavian-style welfare state for domestic policy, and a Pax Americana doctrine for foreign policy.
