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Sunday, May 30, 2021

The mechanical girlboss narrative

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Helen Roy has written a terrific article on the topic of motherhood. It is impressive because it not only clearly describes the problem, bu...
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Monday, May 03, 2021

Which orthodoxy? Which clerics?

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Sohrab Ahmari has written a very good piece for The Spectator ("The unenlightenment: liberalism comes at a cost", 1st May 2021), ...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Is Tucker a trad?

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I admire Tucker Carlson. He is one journalist who is prepared to take a stand on principle, even if that means going against the narrative a...
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Saturday, April 10, 2021

Haili on love & freedom

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Haili Blassingame has written a story for the New York Times explaining why she broke up with her boyfriend of five years: I longed — not ...
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Sunday, March 14, 2021

Freedom, necessity & the utopian dream

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The past week saw the withdrawal from sale of certain Dr Seuss books. On right wing social media it was observed that we live in a society w...
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Sunday, March 07, 2021

California takes the next step

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Well, news just in is that the state of California is set to ban boys and girls clothing and toy sections in department stores. There will ...
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Saturday, February 27, 2021

So why is the future female?

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I was walking through a local shopping mall some time ago when I saw an unusual advertising slogan painted on a shoe shop window. It read si...
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Friday, January 08, 2021

Tidbits from Twitter

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I'm not sure how much longer independent social media will remain independent, but it exists for now and sometimes it's a source of ...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

The Queen's Gambit - review

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One of the most popular TV shows this year was The Queen's Gambit . It is based on a 1983 novel by an American writer, Walter Tevis. In ...
Saturday, December 26, 2020

What forms of identity do right-liberals permit?

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We have for some decades been caught between two opposing political currents, namely a left-liberalism and a right-liberalism, neither of wh...
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Sunday, November 29, 2020

Fury, protest & fatherhood

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Mary Eberstadt has contributed an excellent piece on fatherhood at First Things . I say this despite her accepting aspects of liberal moder...
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Sunday, November 22, 2020

The failure of a leftist common good

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I'd like to continue with the theme of the common good, this time giving some examples of how the leftist common good fails in practice....
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Sunday, November 01, 2020

Leftism, human nature & the common good

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In my last post I noted that leftists see themselves as being committed to a common good and view the right as being individualists. I disa...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2020

Left behind

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I ventured into left-wing Twitter recently. A poster had asked how his fellow left-wingers would describe those on the right in a single wor...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Selected Tales of Price Warung

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This one is particularly for Australian readers. A new publishing house, Bonfire Books, specialising in Australian historic authors has rele...
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