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On Sunday, April 8th, 2018, Viktor Orbán secured his third term as Hungary’s President. Unheard of in the United States, his third-term presidency continues an undemocratic wave seen around the world.

The Western world has chosen to normalize gender dysphoria. A previously rare condition now springs up in nearly every kindergarten. No one asks why. Government-appointed activists posing as therapists

President Trump’s election confronted mainstream journalists with something they had never seen before: a male role model. But the damage eight years of Obama’s feminism has done to male minds may take

 The Kungsleden is an over 250-mile long hiking trail through Europe’s last wilderness. The trail beings north of the polar circle in the Swedish town of Abisko. There, the trail snakes southward

 Writing on the problem of human overpopulation in a 1968 essay titled The Tragedy of the Commons, American ecologist and philosopher Garrett Hardin asked, “In a welfare state, how shall we deal with

“By 2050, only 5 percent of the world will be European.”—Russel Shorto When mass immigration makes a society more ethnically diverse, the narratives that maintain social order shift from traditional ones

Who won the First and the Second World Wars? History says German lost both, and the United States of America won both. Economic data supports the historical record. Comparing participants by their share

“Nietzsche predicted that in the 20th century hundreds of millions of people would die because of the replacement of these underlying dreamlike structures with this rational, but deeply incorrect

Reminding people of death strengthens their belief in social and moral progress, especially when those people aren’t very religious. In our time, a growing number of people has substituted genuine religious

  “As the Christian view of the world loses its authority, the more menacingly will the ‘blond beast’ be heard prowling about in its underground prison, ready at any moment to burst out with devastating

During my many travels, I have found that especially travelers from strongly collectivist backgrounds sometimes fail to adjust to new environments. Whether they are Indians from India or Indians from the

Since the day early man awoke from the wilderness, people have been pondering the question of how to live in a society with others. What we call society today emerged over five thousand years ago in ancient

For centuries, national governments, or nation states, have been pursuing a business model of taxing their citizens’ productivity in exchange for the oft false promise of old age and security. Traditionally,

 In a poem from the Icelandic Edda, the Norse god Thor wakes up without his hammer. He has lost his phallus. A giant named Thrym, whose name means uproar, has taken it. He won’t bring the hammer back

Thieving kleptocrats backing globalist and nationalist regimes both aim to exploit the common people. Globalists are just better at it. We must topple these criminal regimes, especially those in the West.

“But what is more than curious — indeed, piquant to a degree — is that an ancient god of storm and frenzy, the long quiescent Wotan, should awake like an extinct volcano to a new activity…” — Carl Jung

In 1953, Russian film director Sergei Yutkevich came to Albania, a small country of three million in southeastern Europe located along the Adriatic Sea. He came to direct a film portraying the life of

 “An authoritarian conspiracy that cannot think efficiently, cannot act to preserve itself against the opponents it induces.” In a 2011 interview with former Executive Chairman of Google, Eric Schmidt,

Imagine, hypothetically speaking, that in the near future all native German women would give birth to four children per woman, even though they knew they could only raise and educate two of them. Perforce,

How do civilizations compare economically? Dividing up the world into roughly nine civilizations,¹ we can sum their member nations’ gross domestic product (GDP). This allows us to track a civilization’s