Who won in Ukraine?
From Reflections on Elites, War and Peace, published in 2022: “We can consider any end to the war that provides Russia with clear guarantees that Ukraine’s territory will not be…
Conservative nostalgia
Every time something improves, we lose something else. Take, for example, a person who has been in a wheelchair for years and then starts to walk. Is that a huge…
Kingdom and coup
I sometimes say (inspired by Curtis Yarvin) that to call most of the countries of the European Union democracies is like calling the Netherlands a monarchy. This means that formal…
Torn apart by their own dogs
The March for Life has been banned in the Czech Republic. The point is that several hundred people will march through Prague to express their opposition to abortion, and the…
Absolutism and freedom
Does centralised power or state power divided among several competing groups promote greater civil liberties? Traditionally, it has been argued that centralisation is a threat and that, conversely, more independent…
Inventors liberators
A few days ago I lamented the disappearance of the inventive, emancipatory ethos of “let’s free all housewives from drudgery by putting an automatic washing machine in every home”. Some…