Dinah Kolka is currently a student of journalism with a particular interest in philosophy, history, and political theory. Also published in Spiked and The Salisbury Review.
Columnists / Dinah Kolka / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published November 26, 2021 · Last modified November 25, 2021
As a medievalist and philologist, Tolkien had spent a considerable number of years studying a variety of languages. This certainly explains the grandeur of the linguistic and quasi-historical value of the Lord of the...
Columnists / Dinah Kolka / Think Tank
by Mallard Columnist · Published October 12, 2021 · Last modified October 10, 2021
The concept of Western decline has permeated niche right-wing discourse for quite a while. Many, especially esoteric thinkers, preoccupied themselves with the idea that modernity has ruined society at large. In order to conclude...
Columnists / Comment / Dinah Kolka
by Mallard Columnist · Published September 11, 2021 · Last modified September 10, 2021
No one is saying that the past was this evergreen land with rivers of milk and honey, glorious acts, beautiful women, and heroes strolling through the cities. But one thing is undeniable – the...
The other day I had to go to my GP for a minor appointment. As I’ve constantly been postponing changing my address, I had to travel for an hour to get to the other...
You carefully cut off the end of your cigar. You light it up, laughing at something your friend just said. The waitress arrives with a glass of whisky for you, some gin and wine...
I pushed through a group of people, half-excited, half-terrified. I finally passed my immigration test, the lucky one who fit into the 10% immigration quota. I studied day and night; history, geography, local customs,...
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the...
by Guest Contributor · Published January 21, 2021 · Last modified February 25, 2021
One of the most important themes in Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’ is the sentiment that without compassion and imagination, one’s life will be empty. This is why we need literature – so we can learn...
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