Where We Are: The State of Britain Now
Published today. Below is Roger’s preface. BrexitEUpolitical correctnessPolitical philosophyregressive leftRoger Scrutonsocial identityYanis Varoufakis
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The Poet Laureate of Englishness
Here is a new review essay in The Atlantic. Here too are The New York Times, The Guardian, London Review of Books and Washington Post. A. E. HousmanBrexitenglishnessPeter ParkerPoetrysocial identity
Are the ethnically tolerant free of discrimination, prejudice and political intolerance?
This in the European Journal of Social Psychology. Gee, who’d have thought it! The findings suggest that the ethnically tolerant can be discriminatory, prejudiced and politically intolerant against fellow humans. identity politicsliberalityregressive leftsocial identitysocial ontologySocial psychology
Walker Percy Wednesday 129
Question (I): Which of the two, the actors or the townspeople, are the more real, that is, perceive themselves as more nearly what they are? (a) The townspeople because they have no illusions about themselves, their humdrum lives and workaday selves, whereas the actors not only live in a tinsel world but are themselves forever…
The Strange Death of Europe
The eminently sensible, sane, humane, informed, analytical, eloquent, cultured, honest and ballsy Douglas Murray has a very timely and important book about to hit the shelves. The mass self-delusion of the regressive left and their feckless fellow-travelers (you know, the Sarsourian-type zombies from middle-class families) is the most astonishing and perverse of herd instincts. While they (and their intersectional pseudo-theorists) fetishize…
Race Pimping
Race pimping is more than a cottage industry and goes hand-in-hand with conceptual creep. Here is the ever insightful John McWhorter on the topic, well called by Booker T. Washington a long time ago. McWhorter grasps the idea of the imperfectability of mankind, something that rationalists (perhaps necessarily) delude themselves about. The way we use the…
Black Jews in Africa and the Americas
I’ve been following the fascinating work of Tudor Parfitt for the past thirty or so years. He is known primarily for his television programmes broadcast on the BBC and Channel Four. I finally got to reading his book Black Jews in Africa and the Americas. In this age of crude identity politics and “cultural appropriation” fundamentalists, the…
Protected: Hellenism and Hellenization
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Bloggingheads discussion of campus Maoism
A nuanced and civil discussion with Glenn Loury and John McWhorter — the best discussion I’ve come across on this issue yet. bloggingheadsfree speechGlenn Louryidentity politicsJohn McWhorterLiberal educationliberalitypolitical correctnessracismsocial identitysocial justicevirtue signalling
Where microaggressions really come from: A sociological account
Jonathan Haidt annotates Campbell and Manning’s “Microaggression and moral cultures”. (The phenomenon of campus victimhood has, in my view, being going on for a good thirty years). The key idea is that the new moral culture of victimhood fosters “moral dependence” and an atrophying of the ability to handle small interpersonal matters on one’s own.…
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