The Future of Civilisation
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One of the current problems with international relations is that no single set of rules can deal adequately with players setting their own rules. Think about it: Do the same expectations prevail when negotiating with, say, Iran as with our amiable cousins across the Tasman?December 11, 2016
16 mins
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Central Europeans see certain Western tendencies—political correctness, the rejection of Judeo-Christian tenets, including marriage and the family—as aberrations. Contrasting attitudes to centralised bureaucracy, migration and Islam bring that perspective into the sharpest focusDecember 5, 2016
12 mins
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Assad’s destruction of Aleppo, the gassing of his one-time citizens and the barbarities of the Islamic State to human beings and to monuments, such as the Hellenistic city of Palmyra, follow directly from President Obama’s decision to leave the various Muslim forces free to do their worst to each otherDecember 4, 2016
11 mins
The latest
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Neither the Right nor the Left is doing a good job of defending, representing or embodying the values of our civilisation. Meanwhile, our public opinion is seduced by the dream of a world without enemies, by the pathologies of relativism—cultural, moral and epistemologicalNovember 10, 2016
22 mins
