The Left-coalition government in Spain is, quite straightforwardly, abolishing democracy. We explore recent events to unpack this country’s dangerous trajectory.
The simple technique Iseman used was outlined in a white paper published in 2018 by the Harvard University Belfer research centre. The paper also sounded the alarm on just what Iseman did—DIY, unregulated attempts at geoengineering.
The Ukrainian government’s long-term plan was to pursue a policy of total Ukrainisation of the country. The context of war and the need to get into the good graces of its neighbours led Kyiv to reconsider. But for the Hungarian minority in Ukraine, it is not enough.
During the first days of the storm, the Vatican preferred to remain silent, a stance no longer possible since it seems clear that Fr. Rupnik has been protected in the highest places.
It may be just a few words in a book no one reads, but the fact that the purveyors of truth have capitulated to a lie that would not fool a toddler, should terrify any logical thinker.
One of the consequences of mass migration is that international conflicts become domestic affairs in major western cities.
With its recent ruling, the GCC enters the second decade of ambiguous jurisprudence over the constitutionality of EU rescue programmes.
A free country is not one in which one can do whatever one wills. That is anarchy and chaos. A free country is one in which the liberties of its members are sufficiently protected that they can do what is good.
The birth of Jesus Christ has nothing to do with the Christian adoption of a pagan festival.
The illegality of Nativity scenes on public property is distasteful in the south of France where the traditional display is especially strong and broadly followed by the population, despite the absence of widespread religious practice.
Lay Australian Catholics are dramatically limited in what we can achieve. But we have endless power to thwart our home-grown counterpart to the Patriotic Chinese Church. This power we must wield.
A capitalist society is not nihilistic. It allows man’s economic virtues to flourish. And yet, without moral guardrails, capitalism becomes its own worst enemy.
What started as an allegedly rare and ‘kindly’ way to ease the suffering of the terminally ill has ballooned into a government program offering death as an escape from loneliness, depression, or even poverty and homelessness.
Gallagher was told that the ideal of treating people on the basis of their character, rather than the colour of their skin, was an “outdated” notion which “could not be tolerated.”
Amidst talk of a victory for Muslims in general, vulgar ethnic resentment against Europeans on the part of rioters can pretend to stem from a principled opposition to secular, liberal postmodernity.
The real problem facing us: if we are not allowing members to vote for their leader, we have to concede that there must be a different reason for those members to feel valued. Yet, there is no easy fix here.
I have repeatedly defended the monarchy against fellow conservatives who feel that it is rapidly becoming another celebrity clique, jumping on the popular ‘woke’ bandwagons. Now, the royals have once again appeared to prove their most cynical detractors right.
When political corruption fills the void left behind by the demised freedom-minded policies of the early union, the EU gradually becomes a burden on the shoulders of the member states, not a platform under their feet.
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.
The game is not completely played in advance. Ciotti and Retailleau have in common that they both assume a conservative right-wing discourse, but each in their own way.
For there to be blasphemy there needs to be religion and, in this case, I am referring to the religions of identity politics and climate-change activism. These are not merely religions, however; they are the religions of fanatics.
The stakes are thermonuclear. Military ‘experts’ and strategists are becoming far too comfortable with tweets, podcasts, and TV studio soundbites about tactical nuclear bomb yield, fallout, and downwind projections.
Neoconservative ideology is on a collision course with traditional conservatism. Where the former wants a more centralized government, the latter seeks solutions that strengthen local communities and give people as much power over their own lives as possible.
It is easy to distinguish and denounce a full-blown dictatorship, one that haunts, censures, and kills thousands. It is less straightforward to spot a soft dictatorship in an EU candidate country.
The father of one of the girls in the photos called the photo session an ‘“enjoyable day out” and a “fantastic time.”
As early as 2017, the mayor’s advisor in charge of the budget alerted Anne Hidalgo to her mismanagement and the disaster that was looming. Unheedful of the warnings then, Anne Hidalgo continues today to bankrupt Paris.
The worst fears raised by members of Les Républicains or the Rassemblement National are fully justified: the state has not been able to deal properly with these 234 migrants, most of whom have disappeared into thin air.
The law would make it illegal to tell a woman seeking an abortion that help, if she needs it—baby supplies, housing, or a network of support—is available to her.
Individual citizens cannot be trusted to understand ideologies. They must be guided, Ebeling explains, by “collective epistemic agents.” But what knowledge are these agents supposed to help citizens gain?
In order for the right to kill a child in the womb becomes part of the French constitution, the identical text must still be adopted by the Senate, where a draft has already been rejected in committee.
