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The Beijing regime’s onslaught on the German auto sector is also causing severe damage to the engineering companies that have traditionally serviced...
It is not often that seven judges storm (well, walk forcefully into) a country’s constitutional tribunal with a police escort, but that’s what...
A major cyberattack has hit supermarket fridges and freezers in a number of European countries, stirring understandable suspicions of yet another...
China’s push to dominate Europe’s economy, discussed in Capital Letters here, here, and here, may be sinking to new depths as well as heights,...
Tax in the U.K. was high enough under the (then?) Merkelite Conservative Party, but since Labour returned to power in 2024, the ratchet has turned...
I was skeptical about Star Trek: The Next Generation when it first appeared — what heresies would be coming our way? But even if The Next Generation...
The 16th-century Anglo-Italian writer John Florio warned that he "who sleepeth with dogs shall rise with fleas,” and he was far from the first...
With offense being taken by Beijing at the reaction by soccer player Kylian Mbappé to a meme depicting Mao (or as, he put it, “a Chinese...
With numbers so high, it is impossible to come up with a precise figure, but Mao Tse Tung is widely thought to have been responsible for 40-45 million...
The French Parliament is to vote on November 19 on a proposal by the country’s socialist party to grant amnesty to an estimated 300,000 to 400,000...
In September’s state elections in Berlin, the previous governing coalition between the center-right CDU and the center-left SPD lost heavily, as did...
In February 2020, the left-wing coalition running Berlin introduced a rent cap. The cap varied with the type of construction, age of the building, and...
Gray-zone warfare does not appear yet to have reached the final frontier, probably because it would be very hard to conceal who was responsible for...
There was a series of shootings on Friday in Trappes, France. One person was murdered and five others injured, including a twelve-year-old girl, who...
I wrote yesterday about the removal of an ancient Egyptian mummy (and various other mummified bits and pieces) from public view at the Kelvingrove...
I have never believed that woke is dead, but if it did die, it is coming back from the dead in an appropriate fashion, sometimes anyway. Via the Daily...
Franco-American economist Gabriel Zucman is one of the principal architects of California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax, a morally...
Whatever else there is to be said about the causes of the current unrest in France, they owe quite a bit to the policies adopted by France’s...
Writing about the growing market jitters over the state of France’s finances in the Wall Street Journal earlier this month, Stacy Meichtry and...
According to BloombergNEF, around 85 million new cars will be sold worldwide this year, a number that looks a little optimistic and a number that...
The headline in a New York Times article by Conor Dougherty consists of a question: Could Embracing Sprawl Ease California’s Housing Crunch? Could...
ESG/stakeholder capitalism activists have spent a lot of time (and, indirectly, shareholders’ money) encouraging oil companies to diversify into...
I am old enough to remember when Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s leftist prime minister, was telling everyone that the massive influx into the Spanish city...
The latest Capital Letter is focused on the new China shock and, more specifically, the plight of the German auto and engineering sectors, which are...
Jenny Riddell-Carpenter, the “nature minister” in Britain’s Labour government and the MP for Suffolk Coastal (a rural, naturally Conservative...
Not a great deal of substance emerged from the Trump/Xi meeting. No surprise there. More interesting, perhaps, was this news item in the Financial...
It may be a low bar, but some of the ideas put forward by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are an improvement on those of Angela Merkel, the previous...
That the development of AI calls for a toughening of cyber-defenses is obvious. Given where things stand geopolitically that’s a given. Indeed it...
The yield on ten-year Treasuries (4.99 percent as I write) reached 5 percent on Monday for the first time since a brief moment in 2023 and then,...
I’m old enough to remember the claims from Spain’s far-left government that the problems arising from the mass influx of illegal immigrants into...
In the course of my article on NRO today about 9/11 and the response to it, I touch on the inability (and unwillingness) of those running the West to...
In the wake of the Alternative for Germany's victory on Sunday in Saxony-Anhalt, I looked back at some articles I had written about the party in...
When Calais, a city once (almost) as English as Ceuta is Spanish, fell to the French in 1558, England’s regrettable Queen Mary (who may have...
Contrary to the promises made weeks ago by Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s far-left prime minister, thousands of the illegal migrants who poured into the...
Earlier this year, Iceland’s (generally) left-of-center coalition government formally set off on the road to EU membership. The first stage would be...
The EU Commission has recently declared that it would like to censor more American speech and/or loot more U.S. high tech. Not that they put it that...
When I last mentioned gold, almost two weeks ago, it was trading close to $4,400/oz, up quite a bit after having fallen below $4,000 in mid-July The...
As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either. I...
As a reminder, the term “gray zone” describes an action or series of actions that are not quite war, and not quite not war, either. Writing...
I wrote last year about the way in which Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, a Social Democrat, led her center-left party to take a tougher...
One of the reasons that Ukraine has proved so successful this year in slowing Russia’s advance in the east of the country has been the creation of a...
Long-term interest rates are, by definition, an indicator of the market’s view of an economy’s prospects, not least its vulnerability to...
Posting earlier today on the situation in the Spanish city of Ceuta, I noted that, in an editorial published in the Financial Times on August 4, it...
In an editorial published on August 4 about the recent (if largely temporary) influx of would-be migrants into the Spanish city of Ceuta, the...
Humanity’s ability to innovate has delivered a once-unimaginable level of abundance. And yet innovation has often been shadowed, slowed, or...
As grim as the news is about the United States’ missile shortfall, there are some signs that the administration is trying to change the way the...
Rich Lowry is right to warn that our shortage of munitions — specifically missiles — is not only embarrassing but dangerous. The initial focus on...
Russia's latest (as of the time of writing) mass attack on Kyiv was a brutal reminder of the consequences of Ukraine’s lack of anti-ballistic...
I wrote the other day about the concern that Europe’s LNG (liquefied natural gas) reserves are lower than they should be at this time of year:...
Yes, yes, American politicians talk about the scourge of higher prices. Only yesterday, Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump was on the warpath about the...
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