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London needs a new mayor, and what better than a credential-carrying conservative?

The bombings in London have refocused Britains attention — but how will the new Prime Minister respond?

A long line of conservative Italian political thought goes ignored when we get caught up looking at Italy’s current state.

Sarkozy’s victory isn’t the dawn of a new era, it’s just a politician who has always gotten his way.

Go for the carbon conferences, stay for the aquavit.

So the Internet has changed everything about globalization, but did we mention it makes a mean gazpacho?

In the United Kingdom, with the Conservative Party forsaking principle for pragmatism under the so-called leadership of David Cameron, more and more Tories are voting with their feet and defecting to the U.K. Independence Party.

Christmas–and anything that smacks of the alleged superstition of Christianity–seems to be slowly but methodically being removed from the British public sphere (as it is in America).

From Charles Murray’s Bell Curve to Satoshi Kanazawa’s new paper on IQ’s, each and every time, a new idea or provocative opinion has produced a reaction among cultural elites that is nothing but closed, dogmatic, rigid, and shrill.

Which side will prevail in Europe’s internal struggle over free trade?

Somewhere along the way, England seems to have rushed headlong into the world of animal rights, environmental activism, political correctness, and other liberal nostrums.

Our “special relationship” with England goes deeper than simply speaking the same language, the great political virtues, moral habits and social customs which made America great are rooted in Englishness.

Is the new socialist government in Spain whitewashing the country’s Civil War history?

How the EU grew into a sprawling international complex of supra-national administrative institutions and bureaucratic networks, and why many Europeans seem to like it that way.

One might say that the modern history of Holland is the history of Europe, writ small.

Honoring The Dartmouth Review on its 25th anniversary.

Not only is Farenheit 9/11 a bad movie, Michael Moore is a reprehensible human being as well.

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