It is time for us to take back the idea of patriotism from the elites, and to free national consciousness from all the negative labels they have attached to it.
“No one in Vienna should base their lifestyle on fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts that are hostile to women, minorities, the state, or democracy,” city councilor Bettina Emmerling said.
As a visitor to the Jewish state, you soon realize its vibrant inner life—largely unknown abroad—contrasts with a muted, self-conscious Europe where freedom is increasingly conspicuous by its absence.
