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Time for AUR?

According to the latest polls, the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), born in 2019, would be the first choice for the majority of Romanians in the next European elections, and could win up to 12 MEPs.

Álvaro Peñas

5 min

Estefanía Meléndez: “Venezuela, like Russia, plays on fear and propaganda, but that can backfire”

Estefanía Meléndez is is a Venezuelan opposition activist who, during Venezuela's presidential crisis in 2019, was appointed by the National Assembly as Venezuela’s ambassador to Bulgaria with “concurrent” work to North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania.

Álvaro Peñas

5 min

Alejandro Peña Esclusa: “Classical art is a way of evangelising through beauty”

Interview with Alejandro Peña Esclusa, engineer, writer, analyst and political consultant.

Álvaro Peñas

5 min

No More Legal Formalism

The essence of Poland’s conflict with the European Union concerned the extent to which the parliamentary majority could make political decisions that faced criticism and resistance from the courts and whether European law provided for it.

Zdzisław Krasnodębski

10 min

Father Góngora: “If we absent ourselves from public spheres, we are negligently conceding ground to the enemy to spread his lies”

The Sacristy of the Vendée is a means to a clear objective: to propose the worldview of the Catholic tradition in times of moral relativism and ethical circumstantialism.

Álvaro Peñas

4 min

The Wall

The Berlin Wall fell, but the world is once again divided by an invisible wall. The West that faced the Cold War and bloc politics was stronger than the West we live in today, with disastrous policies and a complete lack of faith in ourselves, but still no one jumps over the wall to the other side.

Álvaro Peñas

5 min

Analyses

Do We Still Believe in Europe?

In 1750, Jean-Jacques Rousseau won the first prize in a competition organized by the Academy of Dijon, answering the question: “Has the restoration of the sciences and arts contributed to refining moral practices?”

Agnieszka Nogal

10 min

In Vino Veritas. On Blind Testing and the Culture of the Symposium

The world’s best violin is called “Opus 58” and comes from the studio of Swiss master violin maker Michael Rohnheimer.

Paweł Ćwikła

15 min

Frankfurt School and the Social Disorder

In the last half of the century, a social disorder, emerged in Western societies.

Edward Sołtys

15 min

Cursed intellectuals – Raymond Aron and Roger Scruton

Raymond Aron and Roger Scruton hardly shared anything besides the English Channel.

Marcin Gacek

15 min

Scruton and Revolutions - Between History and Farce. From Edmund Burke to Malcolm Bradbury

The year 1789 is commonly – and naturally – associated with the French Revolution, dubbed “the Great Revolution.”

Krzysztof Łęcki

12 min

Sir Roger Scruton - "Beauty, Piety and Desecration" - an Elegiac Recollection in Tranquility

It is immensely difficult to write about an erudite scholar and philosopher such as Sir Roger Scruton since his great pageant of interests, intellectual involvements and possible specialties makes one at once question the fundamental character of his motivations.

Ewa Borkowska

15 min

The Essence of Things - Hesperialism

In the fifth episode of "The Essence of Things", we discuss the topic of philosophy of history and the concept of hesperialism.

Essays

Meghan and the Society of the Spectacle

It was the old Marxists who maintained that humans, under capitalism, are related according to their commodity value of exchange.

Brian Patrick Bolger

7 min

Europe's Crisis

The current crisis of our continent raises the following question: Will Europe survive? The question naturally refers to the continent's culture. One could extend the question by asking: Will the West survive? 

Bronisław Wildstein

15 min

Francis Fukuyama and the Philosopher's Stone

In the 1990s there was a type of vulgar complacency in the social sciences. This was ushered in by the after effects of the Cold War which, it was presumed, meant the 'end of' something or other. The 'end of ideology', the 'end of history'; a supposition that the damaging 'ideologies' of the twentieth century were exposed and dismantled.

Brian Patrick Bolger

5 min

Man Without Nature – Nature Without Man. The anti-transcendent roots of green ideology and how to oppose them

For a long time now, "environmentalism" has ceased to be a simple “one-subject lobby”, but has transformed into a comprehensive ideology, generally perceived to be situated on the left side of the political spectrum and increasingly aggressive in its aims and methods.

David Engels

15 min

The Biblical and Christian Roots of Western Democracy

There is a lot of historical myopia in the West today: a lot of historical forgetting and even more historical ignorance.

George Weigel

10 min

Conservatism for Europe, against Radicalism

What is the significance of conservatism for contemporary Europe? Do think- ers such as Roger Scruton, to whom this book is dedicated, have any influence on the course of events, on Europe, on the European Union?

Zdzisław Krasnodębski

15 min

What Threatens Poland’s Sovereignty? And How?

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