Tag: praise

In Praise of Culture Warriors – HotAir

I’ve written many times that what the media routinely calls “culture wars” are inevitably just normal people’s reactions to the latest cultural putsch being shoved on us by the left. “Cultural warriors” is the name given to anyone to the right of Mao who garners attention for refusing to go along with the left’s program. […]

Praise the Lord, for she is kind

THE Telegraph reports that the Church of England Archdeacon of Liverpool, Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, tweeted that she ‘went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender. So yes, let’s have anti whiteness, & let’s smash the patriarchy. That’s not […]

In praise of doubt – The Conservative Woman

PHILOSOPHER John Gray says we are in an era of ‘illiberal liberalism’ characterised by a growing tendency to espouse contrived and feeble ideological positions, and to promote them with dogmatic zeal, stifling all opposition and denying others the tolerance that granted the freedom to express such opinions in the first place.  The speed with which […]