A View From a High Window in the Morning | Chris Winter
It is dark but slowly getting lighter. The early hours of the morning. At least 5 or 6 am. The atmosphere is still. Nothing much is stirring and little to no noise can be...
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Diversity is Not Our Strength | Mario Laghos
Politicians of all stripes often claim that ‘diversity is our strength’. The word diversity by their meaning does not refer to the diverse geography of our isles, nor the diversity of thought of our...
The Cycle of Power | The Honest Liberal
Covid is the latest national crisis which would normally give the government an opportunity to look active, as if, in the face of grave peril, they were achieving greatness. On the other hand, it...
The Global Re-Emergence of Radical Political Ideologies | Francisco J. Alvarado
One would think that world history has taught society more than enough about adopting extremist ways of thinking, not just how clearly unrealistic, illogical, and inefficient such ideologies are, but mostly how devastating they...
The Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger (Book Review) | Andrew Trovalusci
The Great War lives in a dark corner of our national psyche. It’s part of our founding myth – in the British book of Genesis, the Great War is Britain’s original sin. Millions of...
The Hard Problem of Political Philosophy | Mark Seymour
There is a section in Matthew McManus’ recent piece on Edmund Burke for Jacobin where he brings up the obscure, transcendental aspect of Burke’s political philosophy, he sees this as a negative feature of...
Learning From History About Reform | Dan Mikhaylov
Politicians’ behaviour often corroborates the Hegelian maxim that “the only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history”. How else shall we explain NATO’s announcement of the planned 400% increase...
Yes, You Can Have Children and Save The Planet | Sam Hall
Must we surrender to big government to save the planet? The work of the British Conservation Alliance is increasingly substantiating an argument to the contrary. That private ownership entails a vested interest in looking...
Our Greece to their Rome: The Asymmetry of the ‘Special Relationship’ | Sarah Kuszynski
Sarah Kuszynski is a Policy Fellow of The Pinsker Centre, a campus-based think tank which facilitates discussion on global affairs and free speech. The views in this article are the author’s own. The term...
A Retvrn to Transcendentalism: The Right’s Next Move | Dinah Kolka
“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...
