Tragic But Not Unique
We watch the fate of Syria with sorrow — a once relatively tolerant government swept away and replaced by fanatical killers. Many blame the United States or “the West” for…
From Conspiracy to Capitulation
There is no shortage of analysis on the cooperation between today’s Western political-financial elites and jihadist movements. What is discussed far less is the curious overlap between jihad and certain…
Argentina´s from promise to capitulation
Not long ago, Argentina’s president could still be cast as an economic wunderkind. Today it is clear the opposite is true. He inherited a poor and broken country, managed to…
Modernity Made the West
In recent days, I’ve written that our civilization is astonishingly young. If it truly collapsed—and its lands were Islamized—it would amount to little more than a brief flash: something magnificent…
The Fall That Mirrors Our Own
Few historical episodes offer as rich an intellectual exercise as the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It wasn’t a single cataclysm like the fall of Constantinople. Rather, new peoples…
Post-Empire America and Europe’s Panic
Americans have, quite unintentionally, shattered the world of Europe’s liberal moralists — those who had grown comfortable with the prospect of an endless war and an endless pile of corpses.…