Transgression Is Passé
by Carl R. TruemanDerision of Christianity merely offers smug affirmation of the triumph of one of the most powerful lobby groups within Western culture. Continue Reading »
National Unity in Ukraine
by Jakub GrygielThe “liberal, rules-based world order” will not defend a country’s land—a self-confident nation that is attached to a particular location, tradition, and religion will. Continue Reading »
Kosher Slaughter and the Dignity of All Creatures
by Rafi EisThe E.U. is concerned with minimizing pain, but in the process allows the human character to become indifferent to the loss of animal life. Continue Reading »
Christian Democracy
by Michel GurfinkielIn the early 1950s, the European Union as we know it did not exist, but a process of economic and political cooperation involving most Western European countries was already underway. And those countries came close to choosing a flag that featured the cross to represent their union. The idea for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Time to Wake Up
by Pierre ManentWe gave ourselves over to the State long ago, according it sovereignty over our lives. Continue Reading »
Goodbye to the European Union
by Peter HitchensI hoped that Britain would leave the E.U. as part of a counter-revolution against all the errors of the past fifty years—and that this would involve the destruction of the British “Conservative” Party. Continue Reading »
Rooted Cosmopolitan
by Ian Marcus CorbinIn 2011, I reviewed what was then Adam Zagajewski’s recent collection, Unseen Hand. In it, the poet, then in his mid-sixties, turned toward themes of life and death, loss and preservation. My review was laudatory. After its publication, a friend passed it along to Zagajewski, who on his . . . . Continue Reading »
The Vanity of Guilt
by Andreas LombardSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, no political question has so deeply divided Europe, and especially Germany, as that of mass migration from Africa and the Near East. Do European states have the right to protect themselves from an unprecedented influx of migrants? Are they permitted to . . . . Continue Reading »
Houellebecq and the Death of Europe
by John WatersMichel Houellebecq books are documents of an internal forensics of human decline that happen to take the form of stories. Continue Reading »
Nationalism, Conservatism, and the E.U.
by Ryszard LegutkoWhether we really have been observing a resurgence of nationalism in Europe is not at all clear. “Nationalism” is a bad word in Europe, and it has been used—along with “populism,” another bad word—to describe the views of critics of the E.U. within the E.U. Enthusiasts for the . . . . Continue Reading »
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