Current Affairs

  Governments are now faltering under the weight of mass unemployment, debt, bankruptcies and civil unrest. At the same time, the inequality gap is rocketing with one billion set to plunge into utter poverty. The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has described a high-damage scenario, writing that 80 % of the Covid economic crisis will persist for more than a decade and stall …

  The most famous political philosopher in Russia, anti-communist, anti-Marxist Aleksandr Dugin, who recently gave an interview to Tucker Carlson, is well-known for pointing out that modern liberalism is the third wave of totalitarianism. Rather than ending totalitarianism, modern socialist liberalism, which developed with the rise of socialist movements that strongly opposed traditional values in the 20th century, continues the …

  Americans now report significant decline in patriotism, according the a recent survey by the National Opinion Research Center and the Wall Street Journal. America splitting at the seams: Faith in God also dropped from 48 % to 39% in the span of four years. Likewise, the desire to start a family plummeted from 43 % to 30 %. Needless …

  Dr. Richard Dawkins has spent his life tearing down the belief in the cultural Christian values that have been the pillars of strength in Western civilization. He has been one of those white male, atheist fundamentalist intellectuals who have – with remarkable passion – belittled, bullied, rampantly attacked Christianity and its reverence of God in the complexity of nature, …

  What happens when an atheist thinker who arguably was Europe’s strongest voice for atheist secularism, changes his mind and advocates for Christian ethics? To follow the development of Jürgen Habermas has been a remarkable journey. He now states that Christian ethics have a greater role to play in society than many secularists previously thought. His point is that it …

   Dmitry Orlov and Vladimir Putin believe the US is failing, because the US government, in Putin’s words, is “making sure-footed strides directly along the path of the Soviet Union.” These strides are, in Orlov’s words: “exorbitant debt, problems in the energy sector and unreformable political systems mired in corruption, their elites delusional in their feelings of omnipotence. And now …

  Instead of making the schools safer, government officials are making them more authoritarian. This is what it means to go back-to-school in America today. Instead of raising up a generation of civic-minded citizens with critical thinking skills, government officials are churning out compliant drones who know little to nothing about their history or their freedoms, writes Constitutional attorney and …

  The government wants us to bow down to its dictates. It wants us to buy into the fantasy that we are living the dream, when in fact, we are trapped in an endless nightmare of servitude and oppression. The American Police State: Indeed, with every passing day, life in the American Police State increasingly resembles life in the dystopian …

In a time of upheaval and radically changing values in the West, it is important to reflect on the world view that shaped the West and historically created a strong civilization. The origins of traditional Western values are mainly found in the Greek, Roman and Judeo-Christian heritage. The radical Hebrew–Christian contribution to the concept of Western values differed from both …

  Where promiscuity and sexual selfishness becomes socially acceptable, it is increasingly hard to form any type of faithful marriage and family nucleus based on a partnership of trust, fidelity, loyalty, and patience. Hedonism’s greatest flaw: Western hedonism and its focus on selfish pleasure as the goal of life, demonstrates its greatest flaw in its failure to recognize that compassion …