Tag Archives: George Orwell

Conservatism and Sociology

Posted on August 10, 2020 by leslie

Conservatism and Sociology Mark Wegierski, on the science of power In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, a central point is that semantics are critical for the  maintenance of a given social and political system. “Newspeak is Ingsoc, and Ingsoc is … Continue reading →

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Victorian Values

Posted on July 19, 2019 by leslie

Victorian Values by Bill Hartley In May of this year the Guardian featured a story about feminist author Naomi Wolf who had recently published a book called Outrages. The book has been described as ‘the dramatic, buried history of how nineteenth … Continue reading →

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On the Road

Posted on September 29, 2018 by leslie

On the Road                                                                            … Continue reading →

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Violence in a Civilised Society (1)

Posted on June 24, 2018 by leslie

Violence in a Civilised Society (1) Part one of a two part essay, by Mark Wegierski Organized social violence is only one of a panoply of coercive controls which society uses to “keep people in line.” A distinction may be drawn … Continue reading →

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Canada, Matrix of Modernity, part 2

Posted on August 31, 2017 by leslie

  Canada, Matrix of Modernity, part 2 Mark Wegierski continues his analysis An essay based on an English-language presentation read at the First Sir Thomas More Colloquium: ‘Diplomacy, Literature, Politics’, at the Akademia Polonijna (Polonia University) in Czestochowa, Poland, held … Continue reading →

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Canada, Matrix of Modernity

Posted on July 2, 2017 by leslie

Canada, Matrix of Modernity  On the Sesquicentennial of Canadian Confederation, Mark Wegierski considers the emergence of the “managerial-therapeutic regime” The Sesquicentennial (150th Anniversary) of Canadian Confederation is being celebrated in 2017 (July 1). Nevertheless, it is clear that Canada today … Continue reading →

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Vimy Ridge, 100 Years On

Posted on April 10, 2017 by leslie

Vimy Ridge, 100 Years On For Mark Wegierski, history defines us To many current-day observers, Canada’s participation in the First World War, and the great victory at Vimy Ridge in 1917, may seem far away. The tide of change in Canada … Continue reading →

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The Dilemma of Hypermodernity, part one

Posted on October 3, 2015 by leslie

The Dilemma of Hypermodernity, part one  Mark Wegierski espies an escape route for humanity An earlier, academic version of this essay has appeared in “This World: Religion and Public Life” (Culture and Consumption) no. 31 (2000) (New Brunswick, USA and … Continue reading →

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Tradition in Fantasy and Science Fiction

Posted on July 20, 2015 by leslie

Tradition in Fantasy and Science Fiction Mark Wegierski examines four main foci for traditionalist impulses in these genres [This article is based on a draft of a presentation read at the Fantastic Literature Conference, The Basic Categories of Fantastic Literature … Continue reading →

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Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Derek Turner

Convenient amnesia – airbrushing the history out of History FERGUS DOWNIE recalls an unjustifiably revered and self-deluding historian Historians, as Khrushchev once observed, are dangerous people, but how could this be otherwise when they are entrusted with a power that … Continue reading →

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