Judge Dismisses Case Against Donald Trump — A Positive Sign for Europe?

At the request of Special Counsel Jack Smith and his team on Monday, the election subversion case against Donald Trump was dismissed. Prosecutors also moved to dismiss the case concerning the alleged mishandling of classified documents. Additionally, Trump’s hush money case could be deferred until the end of his four-year term, marking significant legal victories for the president-elect.

Hungarian-Born Sebastian Gorka to Return to the White House

President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Hungarian-born Sebastian Gorka as director general for counter-terrorism in his new administration. Gorka, who previously served in Trump’s first administration, is a staunch supporter of Israel and takes a hardline stance against radical Islamic terrorist groups.

ForraiTamasatya_at Scout Camp, Fillmore, NY, 2023

‘Assimilation is inherent in the diaspora’ — A Conversation with Jesuit Father Tamás Forrai

‘It’s very interesting to see to what extent we can acknowledge the fact that diaspora life automatically implies linguistic and cultural assimilation. There’s a growing geographical dispersion; mobility is very characteristic in North America…In 2018 we finally started to talk…about how we see the community, what our strengths and weaknesses are, what we can learn and what challenges we face.’

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen rings the bell during a College meeting at the EU headquarters in Brussels on 30 October 2024.

What Can We Expect from the New Commission?

‘The President made a powerful comment on Ukraine: “Ukraine is fighting for our freedom every day—and we must work for its freedom too.” In light of this, she resolved that our top priority will continue to be “rallying partners to support with short-term needs and long-term reconstruction efforts”.’

Jan Saenredam, Plato's Allegory of the Cave (1604). The British Museum, London, England

The Third Budapest School

‘The Third Budapest School strives to debate the one-sided, analytical, progressive, nihilistic aspirations that dominate American intellectual life, and to cultivate initiatives based on classical European philosophy. It does this by stimulating the formulation of important questions: in contrast to the activist Leninist “What is to be done?”, the Third Budapest School holds that the preeminent question is: “What is to be asked?” This means that the most important measure of all intellectual activity is reality. ’

Former political advisor to US President-elect Donald Trump Steve Bannon (R) at his court hearing at the Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on 12 November 2024.

What Is ‘rough Roman justice’?

‘Was Bannon alluding to decimation, whereby as punishment for cowardice or insubordination in the army, one soldier out of ten was picked to be executed, sometimes by their own brothers-in-arms? Would Steve march into the MSNBC newsroom with a dozen lictors? Would he have ten journos draw straws and make sure that Chris Haynes be one of them and that he get to draw the short one?’

People attend a funeral for those killed by suspected Boko Haram militants in Zaabarmar, Nigeria, on November 29 2020.

Let Us Remember Our Brethren in Nigeria

‘Aside from a rare or every-now-and-then post, hardly anyone in the mainstream media—this goes for our politicians too—speaks to us about the Christian genocide in Nigeria at the hands of Islamic fundamentalists. While Western politicians and certain of our own Catholic hierarchy are reticent, to say the least, to publicly speak about this—such silence is not only scandalous but inadvertently contributes to the persecution—our Catholic brothers and sisters are being slaughtered.’