Long before the proclamation of Greater Lebanon in 1920, a peculiar community called Mount Lebanon home. Despite all their contradictions and controversies, the Maronites have made Lebanon’s fabled mountain their own in one way or another for more than a millennium. …

Long have we had to listen to experts’ mischaracterization of the Lebanese economy. “Lebanon is libertarian haven”, “there is no state in Lebanon”, “Lebanon is a failed free-market economy”, they declare, before flooding the masses with recycled solutions from the 20th century that are proven to always end in disaster…

Two hundred years after the accursed French Revolution, we see that the whole world has back-pedaled on governmental models. The absolute monarchies of old have all but vanished, and republics with universal suffrage took their place. Saying Western Civilization was founded on the Enlightenment is like saying someone was born…

In the second half of 2019, Lebanon found itself knee-deep in an economic crisis. Having the 3rd highest national debt to GDP ratio (150%) in the world, the government defaulted on its Eurobonds. Clientelism, nepotism, and random employment are some of the more direct causes. …