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March 12, 2025
A Friend for Trump in ItalyNever in recent history have relations between the United States and Europe been as tense as in this period — that is, since the Trump administration began taking its first steps and revealing its foreign policy orientation. ...
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January 30, 2025
Trump’s hat tip to citizen journalismThe news that the White House is rolling out a new policy allowing opportunities for so-called “new media” outlets — independent journalists, bloggers, podcasters, content creators, etc. — to ask questions during press briefin...
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July 30, 2024
Luck or God?There are questions that mankind has always been seeking answers to, not only through reason and argumentation but through intuition, faith, or direct experience. One of them concerns miracles. Christians believe that the Almighty God communicat...
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June 9, 2024
How the West was lost at Oxford UniversityOnce upon a time, we were told that the peoples of the Western world — which includes countries like Australia and New Zealand, although located in the Eastern Hemisphere — are heirs and trustees of Western civilization, imbalances and ex...
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March 19, 2024
Ukraine’s War: Let’s Hope Trump WinsWhen three weeks ago French President Emmanuel Macron said he refused to rule out sending ground troops to Ukraine, his words stood in stark contrast to both the European and American “red line” when it comes to putting boots on the groun...
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January 19, 2024
America’s descent into madness and backIt’s become almost a cliché that the United States of America, once a shining beacon of freedom to the world, is increasingly becoming less of a model and more of a bad experiment of political culture, a country that is losing its moral ...
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November 9, 2023
Why Elon Musk is right about George SorosSomething some observers of public life in the United States and elsewhere have been wondering for a long time is whether, if you wanted to destroy American civilization, its values, traditions, and institutions, you would act differently from how Ge...
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June 7, 2023
Ron DeSantis’s War on WokeRon DeSantis calls himself the governor of the state “where woke goes to die,” and his track record of accomplishments in the fight against wokeness as governor of Florida – which he believes will be a model for his presidency of th...
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April 23, 2023
School choice could destroy the Democrat partySurviving the next decades might be an uphill struggle for the Democrat Party. This not so much, or not only, because of the strength of its opponents, but because of education options that give students the choice to attend a school other than their...
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February 26, 2023
People, publishers speaking out against 'insane' censorship of Roald Dahl"Roald Dahl was no angel but this is absurd censorship. Puffin Books and the Dahl estate should be ashamed," tweeted American-British-Indian novelist Salman Rushdie in response to chief executive officer of free e...
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December 21, 2022
Is America Falling Like Rome?When news of the Battle of Saratoga reached Britain, a young Scottish barrister told economist Adam Smith: “If we go on at this rate, the nation must be ruined.” Adam Smith responded, “Be assured young friend, that there is a g...
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December 4, 2022
The Armageddon of Free SpeechJust a few days ago, as many will remember, Elon Musk trolled CNN by posting on Twitter a meme with a fake headline attributed to the the cable news network. The image included a screenshot of anchor Don Lemon next to a stock photo of...
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September 28, 2022
Is the EU’s Establishment Trembling?The New York Times’ Jason Horowitz on Monday correctly stated that “Italy turned a page of European history on Sunday.” Unfortunately, he was wrong in adding that Italy elected “a hard-right coalition.” In fact, the winn...
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September 10, 2022
Is Europe on the Verge of a Political Breakdown?Among the many consequences of the war in Ukraine, power dynamics in the EU are changing -- or have changed -- in response to the profoundly altered circumstances. As a matter of fact, if on the one hand Viktor Orbán’s proximity to Vladi...
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June 11, 2022
A roller-coaster ride in leftist academia hellIt must have been a whirlwind last few days for Ilya Shapiro, from his reinstatement as head of the Georgetown University Law Center, on Thursday, June 2, after a more than four-month investigation launched by Georgetown Law School, to his resignatio...
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April 4, 2022
Western suicideOn September 19, 2019, accepting the Defender of Western Civilization award from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute at the fourteenth annual Gala for Western Civilization, Sir Roger Scruton gave a splendid address, his last one before he left...
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February 7, 2022
The Big Lie of Woke CapitalismThere are at least three terms to describe the concept of stakeholder capitalism -- corporate wokeness, woke corporatism and woke capitalism. The last of the three was coined in 2015 by Ross Douthat when writing a piece for the New York Times. H...
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January 17, 2022
The American Medical Association Falls to CRT“The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” This well-known quote is a liberal translation of Antonio Gramsci popularized by Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, which renders “In thi...
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December 26, 2021
The Covid fear factory is tremblingHard times are coming for vaccine fanatics and fear-mongering lockdown enthusiasts, or at least that’s what we can reasonably expect after reading the news coming out of South Africa and the U.K. about the Omicron variant. As a matter of fact, ...
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November 8, 2021
Will American Wokeness Destroy the Rest of the West?"Julian Reichelt is dethroned." So cheered the Berliner Zeitung a few days ago after it was revealed that Bild, Europe's largest newspaper, had been forced to sack its editor — and one of German...
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October 3, 2021
The Left and the Control of MeaningSo YouTube is banning all content they say is spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine. “Working closely with health authorities, we looked to balance our commitment to an open platform with the need to remove egregious har...
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July 19, 2021
The Woke Are Coming to BritainIt seems that even the vast Atlantic Ocean isn’t enough to keep wokeism from spreading across the UK. For the past two months, prominent American political strategist and pollster Frank Luntz has been conducting public opinion research in Brita...
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June 30, 2021
CRT strikes againCritical Race Theory and its offspring, BLM, have struck again — this time in Europe, at this year's European soccer championship (rescheduled from 2020 due to COVID-19), where the anti-racism gesture of "taking the knee" has beco...