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Coupling and fertility are falling. In Finland, Mexico, Peru, South Korea, Thailand, Turkey and the US, both metrics point downwards.

Competing grand-strategic visions of Donald Trump’s new American century are emerging.

Remarks to ISI’s American Politics and Government Summit (November 2024)

Trump’s return to the White House augurs the ‘apokálypsis’ of the ancien regime’s secrets

EU leaders are cracking down on dissent like never before.

Hillsborough, Windrush, Grenfell: all appalling national scandals that are listed whenever gross institutional failures are discussed. But there is another that is usually conspicuously absent: the deep moral stain of “grooming gangs”. It is perhaps the greatest racially motivated crime in modern Britain, perpetrated predominantly by men of Pakistani heritage against vulnerable white girls.

The Polish government’s threat to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and efforts to destroy the opposition are signs that the European nation’s leadership will be a problem for the pr…

My thoughts on the reaction to the grooming gangs debate

The discovery of massive lithium reserves in the US could shift global geopolitics and power a domestic green energy revolution.

A story of catastrophic elite failure

It is untoward to argue that, through an expansive visa system, the potential workforce of one’s country should be replaced with foreigners.

What do you do when the police, the politicians, and the press conspire to cover up atrocities?

The Brussels establishment’s desperate attempts to silence conservatives show the elites are losing their grip on democratic debate.

Less than a year before the end of World War II, then U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau drew up a nightmarish plan to punish postwar Germany. After the serial 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian…

Demand for STEM labor cannot be outstripping supply. If anything, it’s the opposite.

Javier Milei’s administration in Argentina provides a blueprint for politicians looking to uproot entrenched left-wing interests

H1Bs, who has a voice, what does the tech right want, what does MAGA want, and why arguing about it is good akshually

Immigration is the most important issue because it affects every area of American life.

A week before Donald Trump fired him in August 2017, then-presidential strategist Steve Bannon blew up at this writer for suggesting that American

Being human in a world that is both physical and metaphysical confronts us with legitimate though competing obligations that pull us between particular and universal goods. This is superlatively true for Christians, as they live consciously and conscientiously in two kingdoms, one earthy and the other heavenly, serving a divine king and, under him, also an earthly one. The kingdom of God directs our sights to the universal relationship in Christ while leaving us separately embodied in particular families and communities—the one does not supplant these others—which both require and merit devotion and self-sacrifice. This tension between love of one’s own and the uniquely Christian universal love can be seen in the currently employed and contentiously scrutinized term Christian nationalism. Though seemingly an oxymoron, it recognizes and makes sense of the necessary coincidence of our inescapable particularity with our participation in and dependence on larger realities.