James Bradshaw reviews Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition, by Edmund Fawcett. Edmund Fawcett’s Conservatism: The Fight for a Tradition was published last October, and follows on from his 2015 work: Liberalism: the Life of an Idea. Fawcett has had a glittering career in journalism, writing for The Economist for several decades, where he served as the chief correspondent in Washington, Paris, […]
Science decided that love means staying away, masking up and awaiting the vaccine. From the very outset of the Covid-19 lockdowns — a year ago now — something odd, if not sinister seemed afoot. How quickly the repetitive messaging came from all quarters to quarantine the healthy: “because we’re all in this together”! A minority, […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be familiar with the new craze sweeping the West as the 2020s unfold, known as “cancel culture”. The more this phenomenon grows, the more the label risks being misapplied. Cancel culture isn’t just anything, however: it follows a very recognisable pattern. First, someone with public profile […]
The flamboyant gay activist speaks out in favour of ‘conversion therapy’. The flamboyant gay activist Milo Yiannopoulos made headlines this week. The conservative British polemicist and writer says that he is now an “ex-gay”. The news was overshadowed by the hullabaloo over a couple of other Brits who were interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. Yiannopoulos is not as […]
Have the Sussexes set fire to the house they fled from? Adding to the 56 million articles already published about Prince Harry and Meghan’s Oprah interview may seem a fool’s errand: another scribbler has already noted that of 31 stories on the website of the British tabloid, The Mirror, at some point in the last 48 […]
An unpleasant incident at an elite US women’s college shows the danger of trusting feelings over facts. Last week the New York Times resurfaced a notorious racial profiling incident that took place in 2018 at Smith College, in Northhampton, Massachusetts. The story has struck a chord globally because of the light it sheds on the race struggle underway in the […]
Intellectual sanity requires monitoring the first signs of destructive idiocy. The toxic ideas that have corrupted today’s universities all began as tiny, obscure musings before escaping from the laboratories. They may have started with an unpublished paper or two, a request for modest institutional funding, or an informal discussion group. Eventually, they earn a panel […]
In many countries, there has been a systematic and mandatory paralysis of schooling, work, leisure, and mobility. When respected scientific experts sitting on prestigious governmental advisory committees warned citizens early last year that the only way to protect themselves against Covid-19 was to shut down their businesses and stay at home until public health officials […]
This is personal. Facebook’s bullyboy tactics could crush MercatorNet. Facebook unfriended all of Australia last week. Locked in a battle with the Federal government over legislation which would force it to pay for links to news publications, it wiped Australian news sources from viewer’s feeds. So when you checked your Facebook feed on February 18, […]
These days, the Holocaust is compared to anything, and Jews frequently resent it. They are right to feel offended. When you compare the systematic killing of six million human beings with, say, imposing economic sanctions on a corrupt South American dictator, we have a problem. And, that problem is the trivialization of the Holocaust. But, that […]
The cancelling of Gina Carano foreshadows more sinister developments. The Force is no longer with Gina Carano, one of the stars of The Mandalorian, the wildly popular spin-off from the Star Wars films. She has been cancelled. Twitter erupted with #FireGinaCarano and Lucasfilm dutifully complied. Carano, a 38-year-old mixed-martial arts expert who has moved into acting, […]
Roars of outrage can’t be heard unless Big Tech approves of the roar. Two articles I came across recently raise the question in the headline of today’s column. One is by a journalist named Allum Bokhari, who gave a speech last November at Hillsdale College, one of the very small number of U. S. colleges that does […]
In the victim stakes the person with the thickest overlap of intersectional disadvantage wins. Under the Biden Administration, we are going to be hearing a lot about “intersectionality” as an ineluctable dimension of social justice and the American Dream. Intersectionality is a refinement of identity politics. It is not as complex as it might sound. […]
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela Over 80 percent of Americans don’t believe that they should pay for abortions in developing countries. During her first press conference, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about President Joe Biden’s […]
The WHO promotes permissive policies on prostitution, drug use, abortion, gender theory, and sex for kids. Last year President Trump halted US funding to the United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO). On his first day in office President Biden reinstated US funding for the WHO. Here are five reasons this is a very bad news: 1. The WHO advocates […]