Western Civilisation
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In July 2019, twenty-two infidel democracies, most of them Western, denounced China’s crimes against Muslims in a letter to the High Commissioner of the UN Human Rights Council. The following day sixteen Muslim powers -- among them Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Pakistan, the UAE and Nigeria -- responded by staunchly defending China’s treatment of their Uyghur brothersFebruary 17, 2022
22 mins
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Civic nationalism, through trial and error, has proven the most successful and equitable form of government ever devised. Yet we see identity politics, the shared fixation of the general Left and a tiny far-Right fringe, propagating hatred and division that destroys whole communities for base political endsMay 14, 2021
16 mins
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The West has been trying to call immoral things moral since the French Revolution. One must wonder what’s more immoral, the recent invention of a female penis and testicles, which demand to be waxed, or a culture of indiscriminate anti-discrimination that makes it illegal for female waxers to say NoNovember 26, 2019
20 mins
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Western rationalism and humanism democratised the Enlightenment, making it accessible to all rational beings on the condition of systematic understanding, making human action more rational and rationally ethical. Its perfect application is limited only by our individual imperfectionsNovember 11, 2019
13 mins
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Before the First World War, most intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic thought that the United States represented a new civilisation, one growing ever more distinct from the Western one that spawned it. They were rightAugust 13, 2019
21 mins
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The Suicide of the West: How the Rebirth of Tribalism, […]December 1, 2018
20 mins
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The way contemporary political debate quickly descends into outrage and foot-stamping reminds us of the limits of reason. You can argue all you wish about “equality”, yet equality exists only in the company of inequality just as freedom does in the company of necessityNovember 28, 2018
45 mins
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The rise of identity politics and political correctness is seeing old battles re-fought, with bossy new ubergangsters advocating Soviet-style textual censorship with hackneyed arguments soundly discredited decades ago. Worse, timid vice-chancellors cave in at the slightest nudgeNovember 11, 2018
15 mins
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The Canadian professor's entire moral enterprise arose from his horror at the ease with which murderous ideologies came to possess ordinary people. Most of us look only briefly at that matter and others, unsettling as they are, but Peterson explores the very bases of such thought and beingOctober 25, 2018
18 mins
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When I suggested that aid incentivises rent-seeking and stasis among refugees in Lebanon, I was met with vituperation. The fact that I presented evidence harvested from on-the-ground inquiry was dismissed, as was my data. In academia, as I learned, ideology trumps evidence
October 23, 2018
16 mins
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To study 'the great texts' is to begin a lesson in contemporary humility, in the possibility of revelation, and in the realisation that even the wisest today know a relatively small amount. Studying the great texts is an antidote to bigotry and that wonderful Greek term 'xenophobia'
October 22, 2018
16 mins
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In rejecting the Ramsay Centre, ANU insisted it teach about Western civilisation, with all the leftist orthodoxy that implies. Ramsay wants students to think freely under the influence of history's most profound minds. That's the impasse in a nutshell: academic autocracy vs unfettered inquiry
September 3, 2018
18 mins
