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De Gaulle’s Alternative for Europe

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EU flags in front of the Berlaymont Building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium (Image: jorisvo/shutterstock.com).
Attempts to distance peoples completely from their national cultures were bound to produce unpredictable consequences.

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Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks up as he meets with fundraisers for the Royal British Legion outside 10 Downing street on October 28, 2019. (Photo by ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)
Helen Dale discusses Brexit, the English Constitution, and the future of British politics.

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What Lord Acton Can Teach Us about Nationalism

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Ferdinand Delacroix (1798-1863) "Liberty on the Barricades" (1830). Reproduction of illustrated album "Delacroix", published in Budapest, Hungary, 1963. (Image by Oleg Golovnev at shutterstock.com)
Kai Weiss considers Lord Acton's timely essay "Nationality" to better understand our current political fevers.

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Inventing European Identity

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Flags at the Berlaymont Building in Brussels, Belgium (artjazz/shutterstock.com).
A recent plea for greater appreciation of European identity rings hollow.

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Brexplaining the UK’s Future

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Palace of Westminster and Big Ben (photo by Offcaania at shutterstock.com)
The Tories, the civil service, and Labour are tripping over each other and falling down separate flights of stairs while the nation watches in dismay.

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The European Union and the Fate of Nations

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Nigel Farage speaking at an AfD election event in Berlin in September 2017 (foto-berlin.net/shutterstock.com).
Unless elites propose to elect another people, as Bertold Brecht joked, they'll just have to stop calling it “far right.”

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The Hungary Question

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Hungary PM Viktor Orbán meets with President Trump in the White House today. We discuss the issues raised by Orbán's controversial tenure.

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Orbán Puts the Political Question to the EU

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Statue of King Stephen I. and Queen Gisela in Veszprem, Hungary. (shutterstock.com)
Orbán threatens the legitimacy of the European Union’s technocratic governance by recalling the much deeper resources of Western civilization.

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Brexit Doesn’t Mean Brexit

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Berlin, Germany. 16th February, 2018: Angela Merkel and Theresa May at the German Chancellery.
Britain has thus fully joined the modern European tradition of holding a seeming consultation with the people only to ignore the results.

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Macron Calls for the EU Superstate

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PARIS, FRANCE: Emmanuel Macron campaigns for the French presidential election of 2017.
No longer a stealth project, the EU superstate is openly declared. Inside and outside its frontiers, its goal is hegemony.

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