From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war

Magee began with the conviction that “to anyone thinking like this the only human activity that seems to have any importance at all is the search for meaning in life”.

Australia has not yet gone very far down the path followed by Britain and France, but we are heading in that direction. To understand how Australia could slide into a theocratic-socialist dystopia, people need to recognize only one thing: key élites of Western countries would sell them out in a heartbeat

There is a considerable body of scholarship and commentary illuminating the dire future into which Western societies are allowing themselves to descend. Tragically, there seems to be little political will or capacity to confront this challenge, in itself a marker of the extent of the decline

The paradox of hope and fear, allegiance and alienation, which tore through the Sixties has never been resolved and the tension remains, fundamentally shaping contemporary politics and culture, as we see around us every day

The Jewish people are facing the greatest threat to their existence since the catastrophic Roman siege of Jerusalem nearly two millennia ago. Consequently, it is well worth recalling that epoch-defining tragedy in all its world-historical significance

What he presents as a philosophical argument is actually just the expression of Heidegger’s Völkisch longings -- a nostalgic yearning for a pre-industrial, pre-urban, pre-democratic, and specifically German pastoralism, coupled with a deeply reactionary hatred of every aspect of modernity, personified above all by 'the Jews'

The Black Notebooks confirm that Heidegger supported National Socialism not […]

As the global jihad gathers momentum, is it too much to expect our political and academic leaders will realise it is their children and grandchildren who will be living in a future world their wilful ignorance of Islam's death cult is so rapidly bringing into being?