The Retro Fashion of the Wealth Tax
Every few decades, the ideas with the worst track records come back into style.
Kristian Niemietz
· 8 min read
Europe
A collection of 89 posts
How Europe Became the World Champion of Heat Deaths
The continent with the lowest number of hot days leads the world in heat mortality. Europe’s self-inflicted aversion to air conditioning betrays a deeper hostility to energy and to progress itself.
Maarten Boudry
· 6 min read
The Data a Flemish TV Network Didn't Want You to See
How I read a confidential memo on live television—and what it reveals about ideological bias.
Maarten Boudry
· 10 min read
From Babylon to Eurovision
My nephew's schoolmate sang at Eurovision last week. Here is what the people who booed him don't understand.
Lynda Ben-Menashe
· 6 min read
The Ballad of East and West
In a fascinating new book, historian Anthony Bale vividly reconstructs the brutal, fantastical, and sometimes deeply religious experiences of medieval travellers across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Benny Morris
· 13 min read
Postliberalism After Hungary
Orbán’s defeat should scare the hell out of populist authoritarians.
Matt Johnson
· 13 min read
Francesca Albanese and the Perversion of Academia
Three Flemish universities are about to convey the sanction of university-recognised expertise to a deeply dishonest and fraudulent individual.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
The Disgrace of Tariq Ramadan
The Islamist grandson of Hasan al-Banna convinced many Western liberals that he was a moderate because he promised to bridge a divide many feared could not be crossed.
RJ Smith
· 11 min read
Why Europe Still Misreads America
Why Germans fear American religion, and what this reveals about Europe.
Andreas Paul John
· 6 min read
The Nazi in My Family
Evil pollutes everything it touches; for a long time I wrestled with my own shame, as though I bore some guilt by association.
Jacob Howland
· 11 min read
Island of Spies
The British establishment is experiencing a schism over China policy and approval of a controversial new embassy.
Aaron Sarin
· 9 min read
“Nothing Is to Be Feared. Everything Is to Be Understood.”
An interview with Peggy Sastre.
Claire Lehmann
· 14 min read
The Central Dichotomy
An appreciation of Richard Herzinger (1957–2025).
Jeffrey Herf
· 7 min read
Peace and Appeasement
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
Yuki Zeman
· 8 min read
From Welfare to Warfare
The leaders of NATO admit that they must pay for their own military defence but seem reluctant to put their commitments into practice.
John Lloyd
· 7 min read