It is touching to hear Pope Leo XIV deliver lofty sermons on Christian charity and open borders while he himself resides in a well-air-conditioned Vatican cocoon. His Mass on July 4th on the Italian island of Lampedusa, just off the coast of Tunisia, was clearly designed to guilt-trip Europeans and further legitimize the unconditional acceptance […]
Otto Dix, “Portrait of the (“new woman”, “anti-Nazi”) journalist Sylvia von Harden”, 1926 The recent U.S. government indictment of the SPLC may prompt a sigh of relief among White nationalist activists. Its defamatory activities have already caused significant harm to conservative and nationalist scholars, often labeled in SPLC vernacular as “white supremacists” or “antisemites.” Why […]
With regard to the ticking time bomb in the Middle East and the Gulf, it is misleading to pin the blame solely on President Trump or Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu. Many experts on the Middle East overlook a significant factor: the century-long American, Bible-inspired mission to regenerate the world—today playing itself out in Iran. This […]
John W. Waterhouse, Echo and Narcissus, oil on canvas (1903) This brief essay, structured in three short sections, aims to show how mythical figures from the Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses can help us better grasp our distorted political self-perception. There is no scholarly consensus on a definition of the ancient Greek term μῦθος (“mythos”). Scholars […]
Trotz der lobenswerten Bemühungen von Präsident Donald Trump und Außenminister Marco Rubio, die amerikanische Öffentlichkeit auf die zunehmende Unterdrückung der Meinungsfreiheit in der EU aufmerksam zu machen, sind sowjetische Rechtspraktiken in bestimmten Bereichen der EU-Justiz nach wie vor weit verbreitet. Um es klarzustellen: Der Zweite Weltkrieg ist nie wirklich beendet worden; er befindet sich lediglich […]
Honoré Daumier (1808–1879), Two Lawyers Conversing Despite the commendable efforts of President Donald Trump and Secretary Marco Rubio to alert the American public to the rising tide of free-speech suppression in the EU, Soviet-style legal practices in certain segments of the EU judiciary remain very much alive and kicking. Let us be clear: The Second […]
Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), “The Survivors” (charcoal on toned paper) Introductory Note: The article below is adapted from segments of my speech, L’Histoire victimaire comme identité négative (“Victimhood History as Negative Identity”), delivered in October 2007 at the XII Round Table of Terre et Peuple, in Paris-Versailles. Nearly two decades later, I think it is appropriate […]
