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Why the land belongs to Bundy ILANA MERCER
Why the land belongs to Bundy ILANA MERCER roots for old school American libertarianism A writer for The Atlantic has faulted Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, who is in mutiny against the federal government, for his interpretation of states’ rights. No … Continue reading
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Tagged Cliven Bundy, Ilana Mercer, John Locke, libertarianism, natural law, states rights
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Four poems LIAM GUILAR
POETRY Edited by M. W. Davis Four poems by LIAM GUILAR Dedication? Were we born for an age of cathedrals, for the arrogant upward reach of certainty; the overarching columns, neck wrecking, sweeping the gaze from priest to heaven, … Continue reading
The week of whining wimmin
The week of whining wimmin ILANA MERCER is irritated by a self-obsessed sorority The logic is as simple as it is foolproof. An “air-tight free-market argument, according to WND: If women with the same skills as men were getting only … Continue reading
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Tagged equal pay, Ilana Mercer, Megyn Kelly, Pussy Riot, Sheryl Sandberg
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12 Years a Slave – narcoleptic agitprop
12 Years a Slave – narcoleptic agitprop ROBERT HENDERSON finds the much-hyped film simultaneously tendentious and plodding 12 Years a Slave (12YAS) is dull, very very dull. The plot trudges from one banally brutal or degrading episode to the next, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chiwetel Ejiofor, Robert Henderson, slavery, Twelve Years a Slave
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Prophet of Gloom
Prophet of Gloom Zibaldone: the Notebooks of Leopardi, translated from the Italian, edited by Michael Caesar and Franco D’Intino, Penguin Books, London etc, 2013, hb, 2,052 pp O nature, tell me, nature Why do you never keep Your early promises? … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Schopenhauer, Giacomo Leopardi, Leslie Jones, Pessimism, Zibaldone
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When Catholics were heretics
When Catholics were heretics EDWARD DUTTON remembers the recusants God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England Jessie Childs. 2014. London, The Bodley Head. hb. 443pp. £25 Late Elizabethan England was a particularly bad time and place to be a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anglianism, Church of England, Edward Dutton, God's Traitors, Jessie Childs, recusancy, recusants, Vaux family
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Her – a warning from the future
Her ROBERT HENDERSON watches a warning from the future Very occasionally a film addresses a serious philosophical question without being pretentious or earnest. For example, Groundhog Day examines the utility of morality when actions have no consequences with a good … Continue reading
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Tagged Amy Adams, artificial intelligence, Her, Joaquin Phoenix, Robert Henderson, Scarlett Johansson
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Will Kymlicka and the disappearing Dominion
Will Kymlicka and the disappearing Dominion RICARDO DUCHESNE analyzes the highly dubious ‛achievements’ of a fêted academic Karl Mannheim’s concept of free-floating intellectuals engaged in the production of knowledge unconcerned with personal motives and interests has long attracted liberal academics uncomfortable … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Smith, Azar Gat, Benedict Anderson, Canadian immigration, Canadian multiculturalism, civic nationalism, Eric Hobsbawm, Ernest Gellner, ethnic nationalism, European Canada, Frank Salter, J. S. Mill, Jerry Muller, liberal communitarianism, multicultural citizenship, multiculturalism, Pierre Trudeau, Ricardo Duchesne, Will Kymlicka
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The last pagan
The last pagan Julian: An Intellectual Biography Polymnia Athanassiadi, Routledge, 2014, 272pps, £80 HENRY HOPWOOD-PHILLIPS wishes that an important biography of “Julian the Apostate” was better-written I had imagined in my mind the sort of procession it would be… … Continue reading
Perks are for perps with the right pigmentation
Perks are for perps with the right pigmentation ILANA MERCER finds that US immigration policies seem to favour the least deserving If you’re a criminal alien with “family relationships” in the U.S., are studying on the American taxpayer’s dime, are … Continue reading