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US Congress without Ukraine’s old allies, but with new friends
The midterm elections took some long-standing supporters of aid to Kyiv out of Congress, but Ukraine is also gaining new allies among the newly elected lawmakers.
A bastion of papier-mâché: the anatomy of russia’s fake conservatism
Why the “conservatism” of putin’s russia is mere stage scenery, with no tradition, no values and no answer to the question of what this war is for.
Deconstructing the myth: why putin’s russia is the negation, not the embodiment, of the conservative tradition
The kremlin appropriates the very concept of conservatism, hollows out its meaning and sells the world a forgery in place of a centuries-old tradition.
Who forms the “hawkish” wing of the US Republican Party
The U.S. Republican Party has never been ideologically monolithic, and this is the norm for a country with a high level of diversity in a two-party system. Within the main …
Stepan Tomashivsky is a conservative who warned of our defeat
Stepan Tomaszewski occupies a special place in the Ukrainian intellectual tradition of the early twentieth century. As a historian, political thinker, and public figure, he formed an original concept of …
A Pole who believed in Ukraine earlier than many Ukrainians
Is it possible to renounce one’s name, family, and traditions for the sake of the idea of a nation that does not even have its own state yet? At the …
A bastion of papier-mâché: the anatomy of russia’s fake conservatism
Why the “conservatism” of putin’s russia is mere stage scenery, with no tradition, no values and no answer to the question of what this war is for.
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We write about the ideas and the people of the conservative tradition — from Lypynsky and Sheptytsky to Burke and Oakeshott — and about what they mean for Ukraine today. Our framework: Christian roots, human dignity, family and community, responsible economics, the rule of law, solidarity and subsidiarity.
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