Month: November 2018
Burke’s Right Minds: Gary Kavanagh – Burkean Conservative
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. Why I am a Burkean Conservative: What I believe is, at its core, simple -...
The Abortion Bill and Conscientious Objection
The abortion Bill presented by Minister Simon Harris is now before the Oireachtas where numerous amendments have been tabled. Some deal specifically with the issue of conscientious objection and want to offer it better protection. The Bill envisages that doctors...
The Burkean in the Field: Marxism Festival 2018
This article largely follows the perspective of The Burkean’s Culture Editor; Peter Caddle. Joseph Stalin believed beatings to be the most effective type of torture. It was the punishment he feared most as a child, and his favoured method of...
Can Irish Journalism Save Itself?
With its pre-budget calls for VAT reductions on newspapers and taxpayer funded schemes, the recent NewsBrands Ireland #JournalismMatters campaign sounds more like a plaintive SOS than a viable plan for the future of the Irish newspaper industry. The scale of...
Burke’s Right Minds: John Waters – Progressive
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. The sort of Progressive I am: It seems that if you do not agree to...
Burke’s Right Minds: Gerard Casey – Anarchist Libertarian
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. Why I believe what I do about Libertarianism I have to confess that I haven’t...
Democracy isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be
Professor David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain. He is author of Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Twitter: @davidjthunder As Europe, the United...
Burke’s Right Minds: Italian Distributionism
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. To describe what distributism is in 500-1000 words is an impossible mission. I will therefore...
Burke’s Right Minds: Michael J. Dwyer – Classical Liberal
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. I was born in 1969, less than a generation after the death of Hitler and...
Burke’s Right Minds: David Quinn – Social Conservative
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. A few years ago I was addressing an audience along with Michael McDowell. I described...