Anomie Today and Cultural Decay
“The former gods are growing old or dying, and others have not been born…. A day…
America’s fate: civil war, fragmentation or collapse?
There is increasing talk of a looming civil war in America. There has even been a…
The failure of institutions in the pandemic crisis
Yuval Levin argues that the institutions of contemporary society, primarily America in his account, have become…
Poem: Curfew, Melbourne 2020
Curfew, Melbourne 2020 Unimaginable city, locked down in its dark tomb,Its streets masked for an uncommon…
America’s Coming Century of Humiliation
Could it be that the current unrest in America and the disintegration of its political, social…
What on earth is going on? Reflections on the current unrest
In today’s world the falcon cannot hear the falconer. In the widening gyre of overlapping world…
A very modern Charge of the Light Brigade
The Crimean War of 1853 to 1856 is now a forgotten and neglected conflict of the…
The condescension of posterity
Frank Furedi has proposed an intriguing idea that the spectre haunting radical identity politics, the Rainbow…
The Red Guards are coming
Since posting Is America reliving the 1917 revolution? a few days ago I have noticed numerous…
Is America reliving the 1917 revolution – an American People’s Tragedy?
Over the last week I have been chilled by some resemblances between the current American political,…