Displaying items by tag: Culture Wars
A Tale of Four Cities
The story of the US election can be told as a tale of four cities. As Dickens might have put it, it may just be the worst of times.
The Digital Enablement of Totalitarianism
2020 has seen the perfect storm of digitally powered, state driven totalitarianism. Benign, progressive, problem solving, utopian Big Tech has nudged us all towards an Orwellian dystopia of social control.
Love's Labour's Lost
Does the left now despise the working class? A British Labour dissident thinks so, and has written a book about it. And he wants to change his Party. In Australia, an ALP politician may this week have called time on the Labor woke-ocracy as well.
The Coming Covid Gulag
The Gulag Archipelago is coming to a Western democracy near you, very soon. Not content with closing down economies and societies, and suppressing freedom, governments and their fellow travellers are now coming for the dissidents.
Biden's Useful Idiots
Useful idiots are, well, useful. Uncle Joe Biden has plenty. What are they up to? And what will they deliver?
Jacinda, Justin, Joe, Boris and ScMo - A Busted Flush for the Anglosphere?
The Anglosphere faces a crisis of leadership. The West is now ruled wall-to-wall by second rate ideologues and/or chancers, either determined to change the global order or powerless to prevent the revolution we now face.
Judging Trump - Four Years On and (Perhaps) Counting
Americans face, as they always say, their most important election in a generation. Assessing the merits of any president isn't always easy. Assessing the merits of Donald Trump is a whole other thing.
The Light Ages
It is fashionable to deride the Middle Ages. "Medieval" is normally an insult, a term of abuse. A new book begs to differ. Pondering the lessons of the book, one is drawn to massive contrasts between our own age and that of "the medievals". And the contrasts are mostly not in our favour.
Ten Killer Covid Facts
Politicians are said to love "killer facts". And to want to "follow the science". Sadly, those running our Covid policy responses seem not to want to do either.
It's a Bilderberg World, Baby - An Alternate View of Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theory has been invoked by Victorian Police commanders to tarnish the reputations of citizens who object to totalitarianism. What is conspiracy theory? It is worth unpacking in these weird times. It turns out that many conspiracy theories are respectable. Indeed, they explain much of the world.