“If we allow heritage to be stripped of its significance and handed over to competing tribes, we won't just lose our museums—we will lose the ability to see ourselves in the history of others.”
“Brussels stays quiet because Ankara holds two levers over Europe: an illegal migration tap that it can open or shut at will, and a seat on NATO’s southern flank which nobody wants to lose.”
For German cartoonist Bernd Zeller, the more sacred the political consensus becomes, the richer the material.
“No matter which immigration policy has been followed in Europe, they have all failed because they did not meet two criteria: very small numbers and cultural proximity.”
A discussion with the author of Revolution, which recovers a little-known chapter of history: Spain’s decisive contribution to American independence.
“The comparative advantage of the West has always resided in its rich cultural capital.”
“Few leftists remember that the amnesty law, created in 1978 during Spain’s transition to democracy, also pardoned communists and separatist terrorists.”
“Previous generations gave poor answers, stemming from the dictatorship of relativism, expressed by saying, ‘it is good if it is true for you; it just isn't true for me.’ That is superficial,” Father Daniel Ebert Steiner says.
East Germans are flocking to the AfD because they’ve lived through socialism once, Wolfgang Blume says—and they can see it returning in the increasingly socialist policies of the establishment parties.
“Migration is a structural reality that will remain part of Europe for decades to come.”
“The question is not only whether the West has the right values, but whether it has the power to defend them.”
The former minister is taking her case to Strasbourg, convinced that her case is no longer simply about religion or Finland but about who decides the limits of acceptable speech in Europe.
