Since 2007, the birth rate in the United States has plummeted by 20 percent. Not that the rest of the Western world is much better off. In fact, the downward trend on the Old Continent is somewhat less marked, but…
When New York City’s crime and grime get you down, it’s a breeze to leave. So, I did. Newark Airport, one of Gotham’s three airborne escape routes, took me to Amsterdam for the weekend. Trains into town are a snap:…
The peasants are rising up again. In Belgium, farmers flooded the streets of Brussels last week with over 2,000 tractors to protest their government’s plan to limit nitrogen emissions. For these farmers, almost everything is at stake — not only…
A Spanish socialist high official has told me that I often use my articles in The American Spectator to insult my government, which makes me an unpatriotic person. I have been quite clear on this matter: I do not insult,…
When I moved to Norway from the U.S. in 1999, one of the new pieces of information that most surprised me had to do with its national holidays. In the U.S., all but one of our 11 federal holidays could…
Surprised that governments across the so-called Global South aren’t interested in allied posturing over the Russo-Ukraine war? Imperious Western officials assumed they were leading the world against Moscow’s aggression, only to turn around and find no one behind them. Reported…
Several progressive American newspapers have heaped praise on Spain’s equality minister this past week, thanks to the passage of her law that allows the amputation of minors without the need for parental consent. I notice in the articles and praises…
The Left is fixated on globalism. The UN. Davos. The São Paulo Forum. I don’t believe in grand conspiracies, but neither do I believe in coincidences. The plan is clear. On the other hand, the Right is incapable of coming…
You may not have heard about it, but there was a jihadist attack on two Catholic churches this week in Algeciras, Spain, which is 15 miles from the Moroccan coast. A 25-year-old Moroccan, dressed in a djellaba and armed with…