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The Economics of the Sacred: Politics as a Covenant Exercise

The lie that religion has no bearing on politics has yielded the kind of politics we have now: managerial, sterile, and devoid of moral conviction. The idea that political office could be a covenantal trust or that economic policy might have covenantal implications would strike most technocrats as medieval sentimentality; yet, the biblical worldview insists that public life is precisely where covenants are lived or broken. Continue Reading...

Subsidiarity, Not Supranationalism

There is a deeply misguided belief that the road to justice lies in the consolidation of authority into ever-larger international institutions, particularly in the post-Christian landscape of global governance and political power. Continue Reading...

Animal Farm at 80

On August 17, 1945—just two days after V-J Day in Asia and fewer than two weeks after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—George Orwell published what he modestly called his “little squib”: Animal Farm. Continue Reading...

A Modest Proposal from a European Conservative

I come in peace—don’t shoot. I’m one of yours. As a Spanish conservative committed to building a politically robust and intellectually vibrant movement across Europe, this has become my default opening line—sometimes stated outright, sometimes implied—in private meetings and public speeches abroad. Continue Reading...

French Laïcité vs. American Secularism

On August 31, 2023, the French Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports issued a statement titled “Respect of Republican Values” (Respect des Valeurs de la République), forbidding pupils to wear the abaya in public schools throughout the national territory. Continue Reading...

The Liberty-Virtue Dance

Conservative politics in 2025 faces a defining moment. The long-standing fusion of moral traditionalism and political libertarianism has lost its once dominant influence, with the risk of becoming irrelevant. Under Vice President-elect J.D. Continue Reading...