Ixtu Diaz believes recent regional elections in Castile and León, Spain, foretell what could happen throughout the West. Despite past publicized corruption, Diaz points out in The European Conservative, the ruling Socialist Party (PSOE) under Pedro Sánchez was able to keep its 30 percent vote share, which Diaz ascribes to Sánchez’s tight media control, opposition strategies and engagement of far-left voters. Meaning, socialists cling to power despite the people’s somewhat rightward shift.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


