Europe

“Trump’s confidence ratings are down significantly in eight European nations since 2025, including drops of 15 percentage points in Greece and Italy.” - Pew

“It was an alarming degree of contempt for cherished free speech principles, to say the least. News organizations are free to evince a preference for Europe’s pro-censorship policies, but the criticism they attract from the right… in this case—was quite deserved.” - Reason

“…unlike so many other scholars, [author Olivier Roy] emphasizes the difference between Lutheranism (which, with its doctrine of the Two Kingdoms and vocation is ‘self-secularizing,’ giving religious significance to the secular realm) and Calvinism (which tends to seek Christian rule of the secular order).

“Europeans generally are less religious than people in other parts of the world. But within Europe, there are sometimes sizable differences in levels of religious commitment, according to an analysis of recent Pew Research Center surveys in 34 countries.” - Pew Research

“More than one-fifth of the participants believe Jews have immense amounts of influence in global politics and finance. On the other hand, more than one-third of the individuals stated they didn’t have much information regarding the death of six million Jews during the 1930s to the 1940s under the Nazi regime.” - WR News

European culture—by which Murray means the heritage of Jewish and Christian faith, Greece and Rome, and the various Enlightenments—is being emptied out by two developments about which many of those most responsible for Europe’s future are doing precisely nothing.

Sharp spike in anti-Semitic incidents across France, new report finds