Tag: Free Speech
Attack on the Pantomime and a History of Fairytales
The latest thing the politically correct obsessives have decided to ruin is the Christmas pantomime. Not satisfied with destroying the male-female dynamic, decrying motherhood as oppressive, attacking classic television series such as Friends and nearly every single romantic comedy; their...
Book Review: Jordanetics
“Falsehoods have consequences, that’s what makes them false” – Jordan Peterson Jordanetics is not the book I expected it to be. I expected a political criticism of Jordan B. Peterson’s politics, a takedown of atomised individualism, and a nationalist defence...
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...
Blasphemy is Gone, Now Let’s Put Free Speech in Our Constitution
Although the repeal of blasphemy has passed, it is important to make the case why this is actually a good thing for the Right in Ireland. Instead of another blow to old ways and tradition, the Right should be looking...
Peter Casey, Populism and the Anti-Establishment
This will merely be a short analysis of the entertaining results of the Presidential Election. As I write, the counting has yet to even begin. Despite that, what is clear is that a candidate polling at 1% for the majority...
Progressives Need To Hear Out Dissenting Viewpoints
This week’s passage of abortion into Irish law, according to An Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, represents “the culmination of a quiet revolution that has been taking place in Ireland over the last couple of decades.” Quiet or not, a social and...
Love Éire, Keep Blasphemy, Vote No – But Not For Why You Think
Ireland is changing. Ireland is changing from what used to be a nation of small, rural communities into something akin to a satellite nation of the United States and the greater anglosphere, with all the trinkets and trappings of American...
Freedom of Speech is Not Just a Human Right – it’s a Human Necessity
For most of history saying something that contradicted those in power was a crime, in many cases punishable by death. Gradually people realised, we’re not truly free unless we can speak our mind, decide the words we use, and criticise...
Trinity News Needs to Check its Privilege – and be Defunded
Trinity News has finally gone too far. First published in 1953, what used to be a classic platform for College communication and debate has turned its nose up to the pursuit of truth and has instead opting to chase the...
Free Speech Ireland – A New Project
You could be forgiven for thinking that setting up a college society is a relatively inconspicuous endeavour that rarely draws attention from the student body. Usually, it is those students who are passionate and interested in the new venture that...