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Nicolas Sarkozy and the Russian Party of France

Let's look at the "Sarkozy case" for a moment, as it is so edifying.

Patrick Edery

15 min

The Empire Strikes Back: Reflections on Chinese 'Tianxia'

The normal polemic against the so called 'civilisational states' such as China, for example, is that they can be pigeon holed merely as 'authoritarian', that they are, in fact, aberrations on the road to the full model of 'liberal democracy'. It is their inherent 'backwardness', inability to reform, not quite 'all in' on the merits of liberal democracy, that keeps them locked up in Plato's cave.

Brian Patrick Bolger

10 min

AI - 2023: The Ghost in the Machine is Out

If we were to ask one dominating question about the Artificial Intelligence debate then it should be this one: What makes human beings special?

Brian Patrick Bolger

10 min

China between the next superpower and another Ptolemaic Egypt. The rise of China from the perspective of historical comparison

Is China the next superpower? A short historical comparison, which could show us more or less an Alpha version of “The rise of China” - may provide us with another answer – possibly negative.

Heng Xie

10 min

On Decolonizing Slavic Studies in Europe and America

“War has uncontrollable consequences”, noted historian Steven Mintz in Inside Higher Education in January 2023.[1] Shortly afterwards in the same journal, Mintz argued that American academic scholarship is stagnating.[2]

Ewa Thompson

20 min

The Significance of the Political Emigration in Polish Politics During the Partition Period

In a small sketch devoted to the significance of the political emigration in Polish politics of the Partition period, one cannot be tempted to recount its history in detail, to mention even its numerous fields of activity, political, journalistic, cultural, charitable, military, or scientific initiatives.

Radosław Żurawski vel Grajewski

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

German Conservatism and the Dying Idea of Europe

For centuries, Germany was criss-crossed by a wall.

Marco Gallina

8 min

America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything

Revolutions are not always violent and bloody. They can also be carried out in seemingly softer ways but still being equally pervasive and destructive of the norms and society they are intended to change. This is the case with cultural revolutions, where actions are taken in schools, universities, and the media and in people's minds without resorting to the use of force.

Francesco Giubilei

5 min

Conservative and Revolutionary: About Arnold Schoenberg

To the occasional listener of symphony concerts, Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is generally known as one of the boldest modernists in the history of music. Surprisingly, however, for many people who delve deeper into his biography, it becomes clear that he was anything but politically progressive.

Fabian Bell

7 min

Is Christianity Over?

It all began with the last book by the Parisian philosopher Chantal Delsol, The End of Christianity: Normative Inversion and the New Age, published in October 2021.

Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz

10 min

Affinity by Choice

The war in Ukraine shattered the myth of the invincible Russian army, which had instilled so much fear in the Europeans and formed a significant, though not the only, basis for the respect Russia enjoyed in the “West”.

Zdzisław Krasnodębski

10 min

The Italian nation after the Unification of Italy

The terms nation and state, sometimes erroneously used as synonyms in public debate, actually represent two different concepts. It is precisely from this distinction that we must start if we wish to define the genesis and cultural references that constitute the Italian philosophical tradition.

Francesco Giubilei

7 min

Seen from Warsaw, Seen from Brussels: The Echo of the Heidelberg Speech

On 20 March, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki gave a very important speech at the University of Heidelberg.[1] It is worth comparing it with President Emmanuel Macron’s speech at the Sorbonne in 2017 and with the address of Chancellor Olaf Scholz at Charles University in Prague at the end of August 2022.

Opinions

Chantal Delsol: France is a country of riots. And for specific reasons.

Every uprising has its own motives, linked to the events of the day.

Francesco Giubilei

5 min

The New Wave of German Emigration

This wake-up call dates back to the 2000s. However, the problem is as topical now as it was then.

Marco Gallina

4 min

Francisco José Contreras: “The renewal of the West is the historic task that the New Right must take on”

Francisco José Contreras is Professor of Philosophy of Law at the University of Seville and was a deputy for VOX during the last legislature (November 2019-July 2023).

Álvaro Peñas

10 min

Country Report: Germany Faces Loss of Prosperity

Despite the economic downturn, citizens are threatened with new taxes and hidden levies, for example through a reform of the heating law or the CO2 tax.

Marco Gallina

5 min

Is a European Strategy Possible?

At the end of July I attended a talk with Balasz Orbán, political director of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and author of the book “The Hungarian way of strategy”. The talk covered a number of topics that can certainly help to understand the political strategy of Viktor Orbán’s government and the reason why he is supported by the majority of Hungarian people.

Álvaro Peñas

5 min

Questions from Poles to a Frenchman ahead of their referendum on immigration

In the eastern countries of the EU, France has become the poster child of what not to do when it comes to immigration.

Patrick Edery

8 min

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