Olavo de Carvalho and Hemispherical Conservatism

By Miguel Nunes Silva In New English Review *** The conservative renaissance which was ushered by the abuses of progressive political hegemony in recent history, and incarnated in phenomena such as Brexit, Trump, Bolsonaro or Orbán, has fostered much cross cultural and international dialogue. Conservative activists and politicians throughout the cultural West have moved quickly to […]
Kissinger: A Machiavellian Conservative

By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** Other than heads of state or military leaders, few people manage to be truly consequential in world history. Diplomats access the hallways of power, but they primarily do the bidding of their political masters. Academics fare even worse and often find themselves even more distant from […]
Westphalia vs. Appomattox: The Problem with the New World’s Approach to Geopolitics

By Miguel Nunes Silva In The European Conservative *** It is an irony of fate that today, well into the 21st century, in an era of decadence of Western primacy in the world, it is the rest of the planet praising the principle of sovereignty while we in the West—its birthplace—are undermining it. Our civilisation […]