The modern culture wars have their genesis in a most unfortunate marriage of convenience between two intellectual and political movements. The proponents of economic liberty and the cultural marxists who emerged in the 1960s found common cause in radical individualism, in the 1980s. And we have all suffered since.
Do we inhabit times where it is "no country for old men"? For old virtues? For Judea Christian conceptions of good and evil? Cormack McCarthy's epic novel, and its stunning if gruesome movie adaptation by the Coen Brothers, offer valuable lessons for our crazy and evil postmodern world.
The Covid crisis has thrown up many conundrums, and ideological positions. The politicisation of death is distressing, so called "Covid death porn". But there are other dimensions to this, not least the other, less reported Covid porn epidemic. Returning to real science is critical, as is moral and political perspective.
There is a theory of politics called the "Overton Window". It explains a lot about modern politics in the age of madness and badness. It does not explain everything, but it offers fresh insights into the way our modern, diminished politcs function.
The Cancel Jesus Project is well and truly underway. The killing of the statues proceeds apace. The attentions of the revolutionaries have already turned to Christian icons. Killing God is an old project. We are now witnessing the final phase.
There is a madness to crowds, as writers such as Douglas Murray have observed, with great perception. To explain the modern world's predicament only as a problem of madness is to miss a big point. The problem of evil. Christians understand this. It is time for the world to catch up.
There is a madness to crowds, as writers such as Douglas Murray have observed, with great perception. To explain the modern world's predicament only as a problem of madness is to miss a big point. The problem of evil. Christians understand this. It is time for the world to catch up.
