The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe | |
| President-elect Barack Obama is already facing his first global test. And it’s not coming from the usual suspects like Iran or North Korea, but from America’s “allies” in Europe.
European leaders... | |
| |
| With the election of Barack Obama, the “issue of race” has come to the fore once again in America’s media. In “multicultural” Britain it has long been a staple of the news. Yet, it was fascinating to... | |
| |
| Last Tuesday, the Americans voted like Belgians. Obama is even more popular here than in the US. Last week, a poll among the students of the renowned University of Leuven (Louvain), the oldest in the... | |
| |
| Does the financial crisis make
clear that capitalism, the free market and the classical liberal ideology are
failing? Of course not, whatever social democrat ideological veterans might
proclaim.... | |
| |
| I will publish a multipart essay on the history of optics at the website Jihad Watch later this month. One of the parts will be about the history of glass, a fascinating subject which most of us... | |
| |
| Whether a joke or comment is racist or not, highly depends on who makes it. When Barack Obama tells a racist joke, journalists are laughing tears, but when Silvio Berlusconi tries to make a... | |
| |
| L'Express, one of France's leading news weeklies, similar to Time Magazine or Newsweek, was ready for anything. Two separate editions were prepared, with two covers. At the top we see the winner with... | |
| |
| George Handlery about the week that was. Talk loud and carry a big pencil. Abuse Bush, handicap America. Obama the Unaware. Dividing true wealth or poverty? Immigrants, integration and resentment.... | |
| |
| The plight of converts to Christianity in Muslim countries is well known. What is less known is the plight of Muslim converts to Christianity in Western Europe. Last week Dutch television broadcast a... | |
| |
| The 48 hours since the election of Barack Obama have been unkind. Friends once thought sensible recount how they burst into tears, or felt proud of America for the first time in eight years, or stood... | |
| |
| |
| | |
|
|
|
|