Conservative Light has become the dominant opposition to the strong socialist forces in the country. It is a bourgeois movement that claims to stand against the expanding state and its progressive social experiments. Simply put, it is a counterforce readily →
Sweden and nuclear power
Sweden’s economic success and low energy prices in the latter part of the 20th century were based on hydropower and nuclear power. Energy was cheap, which facilitated all kinds of business activities. Now, living in a country where electricity is →
Syria and the reluctant dictator
It was not long ago that Syria’s leader, Bashar al-Assad, was a favourite in the West, and perhaps even more so his wife, Asma, who was interviewed in newspapers and held up as the “rose of the desert”. Damascus was →
Increased migration and climate taxes – the two key issues of postmodern liberalism
Post-modern liberalism has abandoned many of its core principles, originally a merchant ideology with economic freedom on its agenda, much of which centred on enriching the country and its people. Reforms resulted in a huge increase in living standards between →
An alternate Cold War
What if the Cold War (1947-1991) had instead been fought between the United States and Germany – and not the Soviet Union? It may be hard to believe, but it was not a foregone conclusion that the United States would →
Notes of the aviator
I read the notes of the famous aviator Almasy, twisting and turning the thumbed book, deciphered his intricate writing style with an even older Hungarian dictionary I had bought in an antiquarian bookshop. He had flown across the Sahara Desert, →
Calm between the storms
A sense of calm – and perhaps even hope – is spreading across the world following Donald Trump’s election victory. Trump and his party have seized everything that matters: the Senate, the House of Representatives and even the absolute number →
Obama and the end of the post-war ideology of entitlement
For a long time, the thought recurred: ‘When Americans elect a black president, then true equality will have been achieved.’ This phrase almost became a metaphor for a distant vision, something that, though possible, belonged to a future far beyond →
The impossible presidential campaign
When we look at the campaign of the losing presidential candidate Kamala Harris, a number of questions arise. The first question is why did the Democrats choose her? She was not a natural candidate, ill-informed with no political profile, and →
