Le Grand Remplacement

Nobody seems to know exactly how fast France, the cultural heartland of the West over the past millennium, is being demographically transformed. But I have found a way to estimate ...

Angela Merkel

Game of States

The question of whether Britain should be in or out of the European Union might seem like a complex technical matter upon which people of goodwill might differ. But nationalism ...

The Immigration Gambit

I haven"€™t actually made up my mind about this whole Brexit thing. The British will vote in a referendum on whether to leave the European Union on June 23, but the debate has ...

Decking the Red Whale

Perhaps it’s the sadistic caveman in me, but I have a lifelong love for the “sweet science” of boxing. I especially love watching unstoppable knockout artists ...

Sour Grapes Over Poland

Poland has been showered with what seems like excessive and surprisingly negative media attention of late. True, the Poles elected a new president in the summer, and a new ...

The Cologne Cover-up

I hope the Cologne mass sexual assaults will be of lasting and huge significance to European history, and I even think they might. (Recently arrived Arab migrants sexually ...

Francois Hollande

Against the Law

Credit where credit is due: President Hollande"€”who until then had never seemed à la hauteur, as the French say, of his exalted position, appearing more like the deputy head ...

Marine Le Pen or Tashfeen Malik?

French history is currently speeding up, which ought to be of intense interest to American Republicans pondering whom to nominate in 2016. While many Americans enjoy engaging in ...

Budapest, Hungary

Under Siege, Under Scrutiny

"€œThis refugee flow has outraged the right wing,"€ Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch's executive director, explained in an interview with The New York Times. "€œIf you ...

Fundamentally Wrong

The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union was drafted in 2000 and came into force in 2009 when the European Union countries signed the Treaty of Lisbon. The aim of ...

Europe’s Real Existential Crisis

However the Greek crisis ends, whether with Athens leaving the eurozone, or submitting and accepting austerity at the dictates of its creditors, the European Union appears headed ...

City Hall, Antwerp

Lessons from Belgium

As the general election in the United Kingdom approaches, the British people are terrified, with polls indicating a hung-parliament, or a government whose fate lies cradled in the ...

Muammar Gaddafi

A Flotilla of Troubles

Another week, another mass drowning of miserable people, another ostentatious lamentation from politicians and pontificators, all the way up to The Pontiff himself. As the author ...

Enthusiastic Place Seekers

We shouldn"€™t be irritated when politicians utter absurdities "€“ they are only doing their job, after all "€“ but nevertheless we are irritated. Unfortunately, different ...

The Euro’s Long Agony

And lo, the Lord did smite the followers of Baal and do unpleasant things to the worshippers of false idols and crass ideas. And face it, few belief systems come more stupid than ...

Torc Waterfall in Ireland

The Demand for Perfection

I was in New York when Lehman Brothers collapsed, in Dubai when property lost half its value in a few days, and in Dublin recently when there was a demonstration against the ...


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