Essays & News

  Growing up as a Catholic in the Netherlands, in my formative years between childhood and adulthood, I witnessed the seemingly irreversible process of secularization and the increasing de-Christianization of European society. I never expected in my lifetime to see the halt of those developments or their reversal. Yet this is what I am seeing […]

  Advent should be a peaceful time in expectation of Christmas, the season of love and peace, and the turn of the year. Yet not only during Advent, but actually the entire year 2025 was overshadowed by wars, which is culminating now at the year’s end. The most terrible tragedy is happening in Sudan, but conflicts […]

  On September 30, 2025, Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley – having just returned from China – warned that if the American automaker loses the competitive battle with its fast-growing Asian rival, it stands to lose everything. This is because China’s automotive technology has achieved comprehensive superiority while automated factories operating without humans have […]

  The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. ‘In the long run we are all dead,’ wrote John Maynard Keynes in 1923. The statement seems well-suited to the environmental policies pursued by the European Union. At the heart of the European Green Deal there is the goal of climate neutrality to be […]

A “historical” agreement that reveals economic desperation The United States’ intervention to support Argentina’s peso has been described as “historical”—and it is. But this historical nature tells us as much about the strength of the bilateral relationship as it does about the depth of Argentina’s crisis. Argentina has effectively moved its lender-of-last-resort function even further […]