Tag: identity

Anti-government demonstrators gather to protest outside the Israeli Prime Minister office in Jerusalem on March 23, 2025, during a government confidence vote meeting against attorney general Gali Baharav-Miara. 

Israel Enjoys Freedoms That Brussels Denies Us

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.

We are Europe

Europe is the 3,000 years of history behind us, not a handful of officials and unelected functionaries of the European Commission telling nations how to behave.

Funders Over Buyers: Control vs. Community

In contrast to ESG-promoting stakeholder capitalism, coherent conservatism is simply the politics that emerges when control is not the priority; it is the politics that does not seek to break down community in order to use its parts.

On National Identity

What is national identity? An experience of a nation, its history, its personalities, its reputation, self-esteem, and the vision it has for its future.

The Left: Capitalism’s Enzyme

If one’s intention is to dominate the other, it is inconvenient for him to come to the negotiation table with a definite position and personality. Better to convince him that he has no definite identity.

The Bolivar Legacy
Part I: In Search of a Past

Bolivar is part of Latin American identity, but in order to transcend the limits of his legacy, he must be understood as the repentant revolutionary that he was. Were he a hero, he would be a tragic one.

In Defence of the Nation State

Germans have become incapable or unwilling to defend our national interests. We no longer secure our own borders—we are too refined for that. We leave it to others, such as Poland and Hungary, and then lecture them when they do it.

Common Culture and Identity: On Surviving as a People

One of the terrible features of modernity is that we measure everything by the criteria of productivity and success. But we were not made to be productive, nor to be successful, at least not as our world understands such terms. We were made to flourish.