‘Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.’ Students of pop song will know this pathos-ridden refrain from the 1970s hit song, ‘Me and Bobby McGee’. Of course, the lyrics actually describe the life of a drifter: drugs, panhandling … the usual stuff. But for me it has always
Reflections on The Woke versus the West:Awkward Questions for a Progressive Age by John O’Sullivan During my student days in Oxford the distinguished poet Robert Graves was the university’s ‘Poet in Residence’. The duties of the person voted into this position did not seem unduly onerous in those days, but
Mosaic of an Ambivalent Relationship In 1909, an English artist named Adrian Stokes and his Styrian wife Marianne published an account of their travels and painting expeditions in Hungary, chiefly Transylvania and Upper Hungary (now Slovakia). The prose is vivid, if a little mannered and occasionally rhapsodic. On the last
‘Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles’ – Ambrose Bierce ‘God is dead’ – Nietzsche ‘Nietzsche is dead’ – God (Graffiti on a wall in Vienna, 2020) At the beginning of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling work of the Big History genre, there is a timeline
Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism,when hate for people other than your own comes first.Charles de Gaulle1 You have enemies? Good.It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Winston Churchill On 18 June 1942, the second anniversary of his great Appel to the
Both [Antonio] Gramsci and [Rudi] Dutschke argued that radical social change in highly developed societies would be the result of long, patient organising inside and outside of key institutions, and not simply or primarily a quick, frontal assault through mass actions. This is Dutschke’s long march through the institutions, what
“As reliably as the announcement of the first cuckoo in spring, letters appeared in the liberal press after the Tory triumph in the British general election on 12 December 2019 complaining that the electoral system in the UK was dysfunctional and unfair. I think we can assume that the writers
“In private Norman was kind and generous and prepared to help students who showed promise. His asides entertained many of them: the man in the flesh was less of an activist throwing verbal bricks (many of them well deserved) through fashionable windows and more of an erudite overturner of applecarts.
“Quite a lot of White Shift, Eric Kaufmann’s brilliant, lengthy and massively researched book, revolves around the Overton Window, insofar as he charts the increase in resistance to norms laid down by multicultural ideologues as the ‘white’ majorities of Europe and the Anglosphere react to a perceived threat to their
“An imperial EU, if it is to function, will necessarily be authoritarian, since there is as yet no demos that would provide the basis for a genuine pan-European democracy. A partial solution is supposedly offered by ‘subsidiarity’, a notion founded in Catholic doctrine, which accepts that some issues are best
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