Editorials

Three years ago Leiv Eiriksson was put into storage — Now they’re rowing like Vikings

Politicians and others have jumped on the bandwagon, rowing like Vikings in the Storting. Those of us who have always been proud of our Viking heritage watch this with some astonishment. Many have experienced condemnation and shock when expressing pride in our “Vikingness”. And how many politicians publicly voiced outrage when our cherished cultural treasure, Christian Krohg’s Leiv Eiriksson Discovering America, was relegated to the basement of the National Museum?

The triumph of educated obedience

This is not merely about Document. It is not merely about Hans Rustad, the Norwegian Editors’ Association, or a letter from a communications adviser who suddenly appears in the guise of a concerned citizen. It is about something far more serious: the attempt to make independent thought a form of social deviance.

Norwegians to become a minority in Norway within just 22 years

If you have four Norwegian-born grandparents, you will become part of a minority by 2048. Today, your group still makes up 68 per cent of the population, but it is shrinking by more than 10,000 people a year. Fertility no longer offsets natural decline. The trend is clear—and linear. If current policies continue, ethnic Norwegians will become a minority in their own country within 22 years. In several districts of Oslo, this is already the case.

Starmer’s resignation solves nothing

Starmer was the worst of the leaders in power in the West. It is good that he is gone. But it will not solve Britain’s enormous problems. The crisis of trust between the people and the elite remains unresolved, and the bottomless swamp of immigration, crime, Islamisation, woke ideology, and other bullshit will continue to destroy the country.

Under attack

When a communications adviser writes to one of the press’s principal organisations in an effort to have the editor of an opposition publication expelled, it is worth paying attention. Medier24 has devoted a major feature and interview to Svein Tore Bergestuen. They overlook one relevant and obvious question: Who sent you?

Scandalous media silence surrounds new report on Jewish life and antisemitism in Norway

«We must not sleep!» writes Michal Rachel Suissa at Document about the depressing HL report on antisemitism in Norway. We are not sleeping, and neither is Michal from the Centre Against Antisemitism. But those who actually have the power to fix the situation for our small Jewish minority are clearly sleeping soundly. Only one major newspaper mentioned the report, in a short Norwegian News Agency (NTB) notice. Total silence from state broadcaster NRK and other media.

If the West fails to understand the religious mechanisms of dehumanisation, it will not understand what it faces

The West attempts to explain Hamas through conventional political categories. It speaks of occupation, blockade, desperation, poverty, asymmetry, and historical injustice. All of these may help illuminate the broader context of the conflict. But they do not explain the laughter. They do not explain why dead bodies were mutilated. They do not explain why women were violated after they had been rendered defenceless. They do not explain why the killings were turned into trophies.

God is no defender of dictatorship

In classical Christian belief, the state does not enjoy complete freedom, even when its actions have a legal basis. If it is allowed to determine the boundaries of morality, it becomes corrupted—as it does today. Without a distinction between the temporal and the spiritual regiment, Satan will be able to rule in both realms. Bishop Eivind Berggrav provided an answer to how Christians should respond to this during the Nazi era.

Trade union demo against American tourists: We were only making a bit of noise on the quay

What I cannot forget is the elderly man slowly and unsteadily making his way down the stairs from the cruise ship while LO demonstrators shouted hateful slogans at the passengers. We can say with certainty that they had been looking forward immensely to coming to Norway. In all the years I have lived in America, I have never heard a single negative word about Norway from Americans. It is always, “Oh, it’s so beautiful”, “I’d love to go there”, or “I could imagine living there”. That is why this story hit me so hard.

«Just another brick in the wall»

When did it become progress that a child’s waking day is, in practice, spent with strangers, while time with parents is squeezed in between pick-up, dinner, exhaustion, screen time, the evening routine and bedtime? We pretend this is neutral. It is not. A one-year-old who spends the hours from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in daycare does not primarily live within the family. He lives within the institution. The family becomes an evening ritual.