Entries by Tom Sunic, Ph.D.

The Curse of Victimhood and Negative Identity

Originally posted at Arutz Sheva: Israel National News, January 30, 2015. Posted here with permission of the author. Days and months of atonement keep accumulating on the European wall calendar. The days of atonement however, other than commemorating the dead, often function as a tool in boosting political legitimacy of a nation – often at the […]

Modern Education and the Destruction of Culture

Speech delivered at the Traditional Britain Conference to the Traditional Britain Group, on October 18, 2014 ( http://traditionalbritain.org/blog/modern-education-and-the-destruction-of-culture/) Due to incessant semantic shifts over the last one hundred years the word ‘culture’ has become meaningless. It denotes everything and therefore it means nothing.  It can express a political or a theological belief; it can also […]

Tom Sunic’s letter to the US Ambassador to Hungary

October 11, 2014 Mr. André Goodfriend Chargé d’Affaires Embassy of the United States of America Szabadság tér 12 H-1054 Budapest Dear Mr. Goodfriend, As an American citizen I would hereby like to express my concern over the recent decision by the Hungarian government to ban the National Policy Institute (NPI) conference which had been scheduled […]

Defying the Budapest Ban: The Rebel vs the Dissident

 Despite the ban by the Hungarian government, the NPI conference did take place in Budapest on October 5, albeit in a truncated version but with an air of rebellion and emotional intensity. A day earlier, despite the arrest of the NPI Chairman Mr. Richard Spencer, despite constant police surveillance of all NPI guests, and despite […]

Nacimiento y muerte de la Unión Europea: La breve historia de un gran fracaso (translation of “The Rise and Demise of the EU: A Short History of A Big Failure” by Tom Sunic)

Nacimiento y muerte de la Unión Europea: La breve historia de un gran fracaso (Spanish translation of “The Rise and Demise of the EU: A Short History of  a Big Failure“ by Tom Sunic) Los padres fundadores de la Unión Europea (UE) cometieron diversos errores costosos: –          Se creyó que la economía, y no política, […]

Vom Gedenkjahr bis zum Todesjahr (German translation of “The Year of Remembrance vs. the Year of Death: 1814, 1914, 1944, 2014…”)

DIE AULA (Graz, Juli & August, 2014) http://www.dieaula.at/  (German translation of “The Year of Remembrance vs. the Year of Death: 1814, 1914, 1944, 2014…“) Jedes Gedenkjahr bringt die Erinnerung an vergangene Zeiten, die man entweder aufs neue wiederbeleben möchte oder für Andersdenkende als politisch-pädagogisches Jahr der Mahnung anzuwenden versucht. Das deutsche Wort „Gedenkjahr” läßt sich nicht leicht […]