The Canadian electoral system handicaps parties based on principle, rewards regional parties to the detriment of national unity, discourages voter turnout, and entrenches two historic parties despite their lack of majority support. Continue Reading »
Boris Johnson’s example is already casting a long shadow across the Atlantic. Continue Reading »
Once again, France’s army poses a political question. Continue Reading »
Western countries should follow recent events in Israeli politics closely. Continue Reading »
Ándre Ventura believes that Portugal has a range of advantages that could make it the “El Dorado” of Europe. Continue Reading »
Western civilization exerts unprecedented influence. Science commands the intellectual loyalty of elites around the world. Western strands of Christianity have enjoyed extraordinary missionary success in Africa and Asia. Communism—a Western ideology—migrated to China, destroyed its . . . . Continue Reading »
The classic theory of revolution was formulated by Alexis de Tocqueville, who observed in The Ancien Régime and the Revolution that “it was precisely in those parts of France where there had been the most improvement that popular discontent ran highest.” Revolution is not generally . . . . Continue Reading »
The Electoral College works even better than the American founders hoped. Continue Reading »
Anthony Trollope poked fun at those fascinated by political life, obsessed with “the close, bosom friendship, and bitter, uncompromising animosity, of these human gods—of these human beings who would be gods were they not shorn so short of their divinity in that matter of immortality.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Beyond the election itself, the question of the future of the American regime remains unsettled. Continue Reading »
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