Forgiveness and the madness of crowds
Douglas Murray places this remark from G.K. Chesterton in epigram of his The madness of crowds: gender, race, identity: “The special mark of the modern world is not that it…
Tag: identity politics
Identity Crisis – some theses on identity politics
What are we to make of the phenomenon of identity politics? Here are some exploratory theses. There is a vast debate on the merits and meaning of identity politics today. This…
Could the culture wars descend into civil wars?
Over at the online magazine Quilette, a Shakespeare scholar at a minor English university, Neerna Parvini, commenting on the Brett Kavanaugh appointment hearing, that turmoil of identity politics fuelled by…
The death of the soul
In The Australian this weekend Greg Sheridan, the conservative and perceptive foreign affairs journalist, comments on the decline of religion and its impact on Western liberal mores. He restores Nietzsche’s…
