Reading Time: < 1 minute I am preparing this morning for the net interview for MythVision on my Resurrection book (The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]) – today, we are talking empty tomb. It’ll be a live stream taking place at around 09:20 am EST. In the meantime, check this out. As ever, Cody Johnston’s Some More […]
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The Left and Their Cancel Culture!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Goddamned lefties and their cancel culture, as the Boston Globe reports: As the debate over the teaching of critical race theory in the classroom intensifies across the country, the firing of a Tennessee teacher last month emerged as a flashpoint in the discussion over the weekend. Matthew Hawn, who had been a tenured teacher at the Sullivan […]
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What’s Wrong with the Left: The Mechanisms of Voting and Rigging the System
Reading Time: 11 minutes This is part two in my series on the subject. The first started with: I was asked the other day “what is wrong with the left?” or “where has the left gone wrong?” This is presumably in the context of the UK since this is quite a different political environment to the US, although there […]
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What Is Wrong with the Left?: The Mechanisms of Messaging
Reading Time: 12 minutes I was asked the other day “what is wrong with the left?” or “where has the left gone wrong?” This is presumably in the context of the UK since this is quite a different political environment to the US, although there are obvious similarities. Let me answer this question in the context of previous general […]
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The Nonsense in Spades We Are Now Dealing with
Reading Time: 9 minutes Dealing with dyed-in-the-wool Trump supporters was difficult enough when he was in office, but now that he is gone, such cultists have doubled down to a state of psychological mania that beggars belief. I have seen Twitter feeds and forum comments that make me incredibly sad. This isn’t a watershed moment of getting the US […]
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The Inherent Contradiction in the Left-Right Paradigm
Reading Time: 2 minutes The left-right paradigm for explaining political ideologies is not all that useful in being far too simplistic. One thing I would like to point out in issue with the paradigm is this: The right is often described as small government, whereby the libertarian influence sees the free market arbitrating and driving most of what goes […]
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Unpicking the Capitol Fiasco
Reading Time: 9 minutes The last few days weeks years five years have been incredibly damaging to US democracy, the soft power and reputation the US has in the rest of the world (nurtured back to respectability by Obama), and to the country’s social cohesion. But the conversation has often been about whether Trump was the cause or the symptom. […]
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Why Cancel Culture is Largely a Myth for Use in the Culture Wars
Reading Time: < 1 minute In response to the really enjoyable conversation I had the other night in recording an episode of Premier Christian Radio’s Unbelievable with Justin Brierley and David French, I felt I needed to express my whole case given that an hour for three people to talk in doesn’t afford you quite enough. Anyway, here are most […]
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“Cancel Culture”: Choose Your Narrative
Reading Time: 12 minutes I have been thinking even more on cancel culture and what it means for society. I wrote the extensive piece ‘Is “Cancel Culture” Butchering the Centre?‘ in which I presented some of the topical literature from both sides of the argument. I want to build on the conclusion that I included in the piece. You […]
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Political Compass
Reading Time: < 1 minute The political compass is always worth doing to see where you fit on a more pluralistic spectrum other than a simple left/right continuum. It works between left and right, authoritarian and libertarian. I think it’s genuinely quite accurate with its appraisal. I do get annoyed at answering questions simplistically where, as a philosopher, I really […]