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December 9, 2019|Brexit, Charles de Gaulle, European Union

De Gaulle’s Alternative for Europe

by Samuel Gregg|

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.

October 28, 2019|Boris Johnson, Brexit, English Constitution, European Union

Brexit Shenanigans and the Old English Constitution

by Helen Dale|

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.

October 14, 2019|Edmund Burke, England, European Union, French Revolution, Lord Acton, Nation-State, Nationalism

What Lord Acton Can Teach Us about Nationalism

by Kai Weiss|

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.

June 28, 2019|European Union

Inventing European Identity

by Theodore Dalrymple|

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

June 19, 2019|Brexit, European Union, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Nigel Farage, Theresa May

Brexplaining the UK’s Future

by Helen Dale|

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.

June 18, 2019|Emmanuel Macron, European Union, Nationalism, Viktor Orban

The European Union and the Fate of Nations

by Titus Techera|

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.”

May 13, 2019|European Union, Hungary, Liberalism, Viktor Orban

The Hungary Question

by Law & Liberty Editors|

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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.

May 13, 2019|European Union, Frank Furedi, Hungary Constitution, Populism and the European Culture Wars, Robert Schuman, St. Stephen, Viktor Orban

Orbán Puts the Political Question to the EU

by Richard M. Reinsch II|

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.

April 15, 2019|Brexit, Donald Tusk, European Union, Julius K. Nyerere, Theresa May

Brexit Doesn’t Mean Brexit

by Theodore Dalrymple|

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.

March 29, 2019|Brexit, Emmanuel Macron, European Union, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Nationalism, NATO

Macron Calls for the EU Superstate

by Nathan Pinkoski|

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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Book Reviews

A Mirror of the 20th-Century Congress

by Joseph Postell

Wright undermined the very basis of his local popularity—the decentralized nature of the House—by supporting reforms that gave power to the party leaders.

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The Graces of Flannery O'Connor

by Henry T. Edmondson III

O'Connor's correspondence is a goldmine of piercing insight and startling reflections on everything from literature to philosophy to raising peacocks.

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Liberty Classics

Rereading Politica in the Post-Liberal Moment

by Glenn A. Moots

Althusius offers a rich constitutionalism that empowers persons to thrive alongside one another in deliberate communities.

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James Fenimore Cooper and the American Experiment

by Melissa Matthes

In The American Democrat, James Fenimore Cooper defended democracy against both mob rule and majority tyranny.

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Podcasts

Stuck With Decadence

A discussion with Ross Douthat

Ross Douthat discusses with Richard Reinsch his new book The Decadent Society.

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Can the Postmodern Natural Law Remedy Our Failing Humanism?

A discussion with Graham McAleer

Graham McAleer discusses how postmodern natural law can help us think more coherently about human beings and our actions.

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Did the Civil Rights Constitution Distort American Politics?

A discussion with Christopher Caldwell

Christopher Caldwell discusses his new book, The Age of Entitlement.

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America, Land of Deformed Institutions

A discussion with Yuval Levin

Yuval Levin pinpoints that American alienation and anger emerges from our weak political, social, and religious institutions.

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