Tag: Liberalism
Not All Are Born Equal
Author's Note: Since this article has caused some controversy, it is worth noting that nowhere in its contents are eugenics, race, inferiority or superiority mentioned. It is merely an examination of difference, and why those differences should be understood and celebrated....
Why The Good Friday Agreement Will Fail
“Secular liberals and socialists expected tribal passions would gradually disappear, while improved means of communication and a better scientific understanding of the universe would take its place. But it turned out not to be so.” - Leszek Kolakowski Ireland’s Fukuyama...
Graham Linehan and the End of Irish Public Life
The New Anti-Culture Wars: For the past 50 years liberal Ireland has styled itself as a counter-cultural force fighting against the tide of a conservative establishment in the form of Church and State. While questionable, this at least provided a...
The Making of the ‘New Ireland’
“Ireland had clung to her youth, indeed to her childhood, longer and more tenaciously than any other country in Europe, resisting Change, Alteration, and Reconstruction to the very last.” ― Seán Ó Faoláin Ireland: Between the Idea and the Reality Oftentimes...
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...
Burke’s Right Minds: David Thunder – Confederal Republican
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 Confederal Republican: “Live free or die,” asserts the official motto of...
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...
Politically Correct Liberals Paved the Way for Peter Casey
Presidential candidate Peter Casey became the talking-point of media pundits and ordinary citizens alike across the country when he depicted Irish travellers as people “camping on someone else’s land,” criticized a particular travelling community for refusing publicly-funded housing, and suggested...
The Classical Liberalism Debate and a Conversation with Sargon
Listening to the conversation between author Angela Nagle and online commentator Carl Benjamin last Wednesday, one couldn’t help but be struck by just how depressing the tone of it was. The two often disagreed passionately during the event, hosted by...
Conservatism and The Military Mindset
So what lesson should be learnt from the relative immunity of the military from leftist social engineering, and how could it be applied to other aspects of society?