Culture and Politics on a ‘Fortress Island’
A people do not become a nation—however tiny and insignificant a nation—until they possess a literature; just as a man becomes a man only when he reveals his personality through speech.
A people do not become a nation—however tiny and insignificant a nation—until they possess a literature; just as a man becomes a man only when he reveals his personality through speech.
The creation of a monolingual Catalonia is central to the separatist project, albeit thoroughly out of step with the region’s history.
Names are important, and the name ‘conservative’ is important if we are not to forget who we are and what we strive for. Conservatives are not merely reactionaries. We affirm something. We affirm our civilisation and we want to conserve it.
Anti-French sentiment is on the rise in Algeria, especially since Emmanuel Macron’s statements in October 2021, when he condemned the political-military system in place.
France is no novice to this particular battleground. It was only in late October that Le Petit Robert announced the inclusion of the neutral third person pronoun “iel” for its digital edition.
For the uninitiated, ‘gendering’ is a new phenomenon in Woke High German. It means attaching a horribly out-of-place asterisk and the feminine ending of a word to the masculine noun. Woke High German leads to orthographic monstrosities like Verkäufer*in, Bürgermeister*innen, or even Studierende*r.