The alliance of totalitarianisms and the imperative of Western resistance.

Lars Møller | July 29, 2026

From Wikimedia Commons: Washington Rallying the Troops at Monmouth (Emanuel Leutze, 1854)

Much like the Christian empires of the past, the free Western societies of our time are under attack. What at first glance might look like a fair contest of ideas or a dispute over cultural norms is, in truth, a civilizational confrontation of existential weight. On one side of the conflict stand the forces shaped by the hard-won achievements of Western civilization—individual liberty, the rule of law, free inquiry, and the moral centrality of the person—while on the other two forms of totalitarianism have united. For all their superficial differences, they converge in their hostility to the West: the woke totalitarianism of the progressive managerial class and the Islamic totalitarianism that seeks to impose a sacralized hierarchy of submission.

Founded on shared interests and driven by revolutionary fantasies about the destruction of the open society, the totalitarian alliance is far from accidental. It is strategic. And the gravity of the moment—the real possibility of the collapse of Western civilization as a coherent order of freedom—demands that those who truly value liberty, justice, and human dignity cease their internal quarrels over the proper form of resistance and recognize the common enemy.

Unfortunately, the challenge to society is anything but hypothetical. Institutions that once transmitted the inheritance of the West—universities, media, cultural bodies, even segments of the state—have been captured or neutralized by an ideology that treats dissent as moral pollution and systematically privileges group grievance over individual rights. Parallel to this internal corrosion runs the demographic and ideological pressure of Islamic totalitarianism, which rejects the very premises of secular freedom, equality before the law, and the sovereignty of the individual conscience. These two forces have adapted and now reinforce one another.

A deal has been struck. The woke apparatus provides institutional cover, moral prestige, and legal insulation for practices and doctrines that would otherwise be recognized as incompatible with liberal order. In return, the Islamist project supplies a........

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