Is the American century ending?
As the U.S. nears its 250th anniversary, discussions arise about the potential end of the American century, a theme revisited throughout history amid evolving global dynamics.
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Remigration works: In Turkey and the Middle East, people who can go home are going home
As global displacement declines for the first time in a decade, many refugees, particularly Syrians, are remigrating home, while Germany's naturalization rates continue to…
Our culture fails: Europe will not certify its way out of this with passport exams
The continent keeps trying to manufacture loyalty with forms and exams. It has forgotten that its own order is a culture, not a machine.
Europe has forgotten how to build
In 1969, Switzerland’s Beznau plant went online after roughly four years of construction. France built its nuclear fleet in the 1970s on a similar schedule.
The rare miracle of order
We live in a world of daily miracles: Walk up to an automated teller machine almost anywhere in the world, insert a card, type four digits, and a small mechanism dispenses…
Why the European Right keeps rising
The four-and-a-half-hour interview that Björn Höcke, the AfD leader in Thuringia and enfant terrible of German domestic politics, gave to the German podcaster Ben Berndt…
An empire that cannot speak its name
There is a parlour game popular among European commentators that consists of arguing whether the United States is doomed.
The anti-fascists are now funding fascists
In recent weeks, I keep coming across new items that need constant double-checking, because they are so absurd that at first glance they appear made up.
Orbán goes: How voter fatigue drives leaders from office, no matter how good they are
A lot will be written about the end of the era of Orbán in Hungary, so allow me to add a bit of a meta perspective.
Against nuclear power: The most successful brainwashing campaign in modern history
I usually do not write about my home country, Austria, but today I want to make an exception.
Europe’s pre-revolutionary conditions are taking shape
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to address members of the European Parliament.
The revolution that never comes
Last Sunday was supposed to settle the question of whether Europe's populist right can govern, and instead it sharpened a different one: Whether the establishment can keep…
The Hormuz crisis is about much more than oil
The Western public has been conditioned to think of energy crises in terms of petrol prices and heating bills.
The Great Game of Oil: Why Iran is about leverage not liberation
Within seventy-two hours of Operation Epic Fury, the joint US-Israeli strike on Iran, Tehran had retaliated across the entire Persian Gulf.
Trump trap: Do Democrats despise their own national culture?
On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump delivered the longest State of the Union Address in American history in his usual style: Approximately one hour and 48 minutes of superlatives,…
Young men without purpose mean lethargy or rage across Europe
In 2002 Fox aired one season of a remarkably entertaining science fiction show created by Joss Whedon.
US diplomatic decline and the lost European mind
Donald Trump and his administration have a problem: As I have outlined elsewhere, I think that the United States is pursuing a strategic foreign policy – often called the…
The death of technocracy and the return of politics
Real political change tends to have more than one cause, and although it has become somewhat fashionable to reduce everything to a single issue – whether it is the economy,…
The fragile ‘We’: What is at stake is the symbolic boundary of membership
The crisis in liberal democracies is not just about inflation, migration, or polarisation.
The endpoint of history, or why Epstein shows what happens when belief dies
The world did not end in a mushroom cloud or a clash of grand ideologies.
Twisting history to dishonour history’s victims and democracy’s principles
Across the Western world, a troubling pattern has emerged: Historical memory is being weaponised against democratic preferences.
Every great collapse begins with a crack
At first glance, a headline about the University of Mainz removing french fries from its cafeteria menu seems trivial.
Trump in Davos: Inflammatory rhetoric, strategic policy signals
When President Donald Trump took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20th, he delivered a speech that was characteristically bombastic, tangential, and…
Vanishing civilisation: A nation has its own children or a nation disappears
I see that the headlines are filled with reports from Iran, Venezuela, and Greenland.
Europe treats its civilisation as an embarrassment to be dismantled
When Francis Fukuyama declared the "end of history" in 1989, he articulated what had become the West's unspoken creed: That liberal democracy and market capitalism represented…
Germany ‘joint borrowing’ for Ukraine is like France borrowing for American revolution
The events in Brussels at the end of this year confirm what many of us have been warning about for years: The EU is sleepwalking into a self-inflicted historical catastrophe…
The EU could be gone in four years: A revolutionary eruption is coming
In 1988, if you had told anyone that the Soviet Union would cease to exist just four years later, you would have been dismissed as a crank.
The elite are selling a lie and the people know it now
It is a supreme irony that the nations we once celebrated as the cradles of liberal democracy—the United Kingdom, the "mother of parliaments"—are now the very places where…
Is Europe kaput? Washington says this is Europe’s last chance to choose
The Trump administration's 2025 National Security Strategy dropped last week, and if you are in Brussels or Berlin, you might want to pour yourself a stiff drink before reading…
The European paradox on sanctions: Preaching morality, doing business
When eminent historians like Niall Ferguson speak, the Western elite listens.