NCF Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo debates the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust’s decision to decolonize its collection to eliminate “white supremacy”.
Category Archives: Conservatism
TEALS/Independents – know who you’re voting for.
The woke millionaire who has underwritten the useless TEAL/Independents in parliament is preparing a broad assault on the seats occupied by conservative MPs.
Don’t be fooled by the slogan ‘People over Politics’. There are no greater schemers in politics than the green-left TEAL/Independents.
Trump’s lies/Russian propaganda
It’s informative to go back nine days to when Andrew Bolt listed the lies/Russian propaganda Trump told about Zelensky.
Tony Abbott on Trump
It’s a great tribute to Tony Abbott that he nailed Trump’s delusions immediately. He showed once again how accurate his true conservative judgment is.
Those who fancy themselves conservative and support Trump are just as delusional as Trump.
Conservatives (like me) cheered Trump in his undertaking to take down the woke establishment. Unfortunately, Trump’s ‘assessment’ and a true (Burkean) conservative’s assessment of Putin’s war were coincidental. Trump has shown he is motivated by power and greed, not by the right order of things.
Ukraine: Trump is completely off his rocker
As I said a few comments ago, it is difficult to believe that someone in possession of their reason could offer Trump’s assessment of the Russia-Ukraine war.
It is delusionary in the extreme.
It is all the more urgent for the rest of the West to support Ukraine in its resistance to the psychopathic homicidal dictator who rules Russia.
We must shout our continued support for Zelensky and Ukraine and provide all the military equipment they need.
Australia must step up our support.
Jake Broe’s video is recommended for an accurate assessment of Trump’s Russia-Ukraine craziness although I think he bashes the fascist angle more than is proper. Craziness and delusion are a better explanation than fascism.
NOTE: It is fallacious to claim that a person who is delusional in one respect is delusional in all respects. Trump’s mandate was to destroy the left’s hegemony over the West. As long as he continues to take down the woke dictatorship, he is satisfying that mandate.
Natural Law, Social Justice, and the Crisis of Liberty in the West
March 10, 2017, Ryan T. Anderson
The essay below by Ryan T. Anderson on The Witherspoon Institute website is an excellent piece on the natural law. Edmund Burke outlined similar ideas about the duties inherent in man’s nature. See Edmund Burke on what it means to be a people.
Since I have just said a few words on natural law and economic freedom, I want to say a few words about a natural law conception of social justice and how it can help us now. Some people think social justice is a twentieth century invention of left-leaning thinkers, but this starts the history of social justice midstream. To understand its true meaning, we must look farther back to its real historical origins.
The first known use of the phrase “social justice” was by a Jesuit Thomist, Luigi Taparelli, in his multivolume work published between 1840 and 1843 titled Saggio teoretico di dritto naturale appoggiato sul fatto (A Theoretical Treatise on Natural Law Resting on Fact). I want to emphasize two arguments that Taparelli highlighted by coining the new phrase “social justice”: first, that man is social by nature and belongs to many societies and, second, that man has natural duties to others in justice.
Read the rest here . . .
REPUTATION, REASON AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT
Discussion of Chapter Six, ‘Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project’, Second Part on ‘Thought’ of Jesse Norman’s book EDMUND BURKE: PHILOSOPHER, POLITICIAN AND PROPHET
Chapter Six, ‘Reputation, Reason and the Enlightenment Project’ begins the Second Part on ‘Thought’ of Jesse Norman’s book Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician And Prophet. Norman surveys the reaction to Burke’s writings and speeches following Burke’s death in 1797. He cites the views of many well-known historical figures in addition to lesser known names in the fields of academia, politics and literature. His conclusion, with which one should readily agree even on a brief reading of the opinions, is that there was much ‘bipartisan esteem’ of Burke’s thought. ‘Amid the ferment of early nineteenth century social, economic and political change,’ he says, ‘many different writers were able over time to find ideas of enduring value within Burke.’ (KL 2320)
‘In the twentieth century,’ he continues, ‘Burke was pressed into service on numerous occasions.’ Those occasions were the fight against communism during the Cold War (the 1950s and 1960s) and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It was Burke’s anti-totalitarian rhetoric that American conservatives drew on to drive forward their fight against communism, which represented all forms of totalitarianism. Norman’s tendentious tone here makes it clear he is not convinced of there being any justification for this service. He ends the survey with the following rather puzzling comment.
There has been a persistent desire by some conservative writers to relocate Burke away from a Lockean framework of natural rights and find in him a specifically Christian, indeed Thomist, doctrine of natural law. (KL 2349)
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Patterns of decline – the clock is ticking
This is one of the most penetrating analyses I have heard of the problems eating away at Western Civilisation. Highly recommended. Be afraid, very afraid.
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‘Professor Hanson joins John Anderson to discuss his new book The End of Everything, as well as the considerable unrest across America in the lead up to the 2024 Presidential election. They unpack the recent turmoil in higher education, and its aggravation due to the unchecked left-wing ideology of those in leadership. They also discuss the unassailable appeal of Trump among Republican voters due to his outsider status and combative persona. They finish on a discussion of his new book The End of Everything, examining various historical parallels with our time, and the importance of recognizing patterns of decline to prevent another civilisational catastrophe.
‘In addition to writing hundreds of articles, book reviews and newspaper editorials, Hanson is also the author of twenty-four books and hosts a regular podcast series, ‘The Victor Davis Hanson Show’. Hanson was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2007 by President George W. Bush, and was a presidential appointee in 2007-08 on the American Battle Monuments Commission. His book, The Dying Citizen, was published in October 2021. And his latest book, released on May the 7th this year, The End of Everything, How Wars Descend Into Annihilation.‘
More proof of the failure of multiculturalism
Taylor Auerbach and Sharri Markson of Sky News have presented a stunning report on a ‘radical pro-Palestinian group’ whose leader identifies as a ‘terrorist’.
Just as disturbing, though not surprising, is the collusion of members of the Greens Party. It is not surprising because the Greens are Australia’s Marxist party with the unfailing object of destroying our Nation and replacing it with some evil of their design.
But no matter how much proof there is of multiculturalism’s failure around the world, its supporters, like the anti-white government funded SBS, will barrel on spruiking the benefits of ‘diversity’. Of course, ‘diversity’ is the weapon to destroy the white British-European foundations of the nation of Australia.
The immigration of incompatible peoples is essential to their project.
We have demonstrations every day of people from incompatible cultures openly expressing their hatred of foundational Australians. It is more than ironic that some of these people from countries teetering on barbarism are using Australia’s law courts to attack and harm Australians.
Multiculturalism must be the central issue in the 2025 general election. Conservatives – real conservatives – must be now in full election mode to defeat the Labor-Greens-TEAL coalition. These are the parties of treachery and betrayal. Tactics, clever tactics, are crucial.
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Radical pro-Palestinian group evades police crackdown after chilling footage emerges of ‘terrorist’ activists in Melbourne
A radical group of pro-Palestinian extremists in Melbourne has avoided any police crackdown despite chilling footage emerging of their leader declaring the activists as “terrorists”.
Taylor Auerbach and Sharri Markson
A radical group of pro-Palestinian protesters and left-wing extremists continues to avoid the glare of authorities despite Sky News Australia alerting police to a series of videos in which leaders declare they are “terrorists” and call on supporters to sabotage Australian shipping exports to Israel.
Headquartered on the forecourt of Victoria’s parliament building since the deadly Hamas invasion of Israel on October 7 last year, the group calls itself ‘The Sit-Intifada’ – a pun based on the Arabic word ‘Intifada’, meaning an uprising of Muslims against Israel.
Osama Bin Laden used the last “blessed Intifada” as justification for the attacks of September 11, 2001 in New York, Washington DC and Pennsylvania.
Victorian Greens MPs – including deputy leader Ellen Sandell – have been filmed addressing the group in recent weeks and voicing their support.
The group comprises a coalition of Islamic, anti-capitalist and socialist “revolutionary” groups as well as unions, teachers’ organisations and individual activists.
One of the group’s most vocal members is president of the ‘Black Peoples Union’ Kieran Stewart-Assheton.