The media are awash in stories about things like TikTok encouraging teen girls to obsess about their appearance. Yes, that’s happening, and yes, that’s bad, but phenomena like that are the merest slivers, the most superficial symptoms, of much deeper cultural changes we hardly notice. This generation may be the most heavily and intensely indoctrinated in […]
A Marist priest and Irish historian, he is known for his writings and his rejection of revisionist Irish history and historians. He relayed in an interview with History Ireland that he felt stifled in UCD and ironically, it was in Cambridge, which was originally the origin of revisionism, that he found the data and evidence […]
Intolerance?
The ‘religion of antiracism’
MPs were allowed a conscience vote on the extremely divisive issue.
The ‘controversy’ of the National Maternity Hospital is causing people to lose their minds. The most visible manifestation is the minor demonstration in front of the Dail of a few hundred disgruntled activists wearing silly clothes and carrying silly signs. The prominence given to the small gathering by all major news outlets indicates that they […]
A collective trauma
It is 70 years since Whitaker Chambers’ Cold War classic, ‘Witness’ was first released a few years after the famous trial in the United States where Alger Hiss was accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Described as part literary effort, part philosophical treatise, the autobiography of a former […]
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ON THIS DAY: 16th May 1920, Joan Of Arc was cannonised a saint “You Englishmen, who have no right in this Kingdom of France, the King of Heaven sends you word and warning, by me Jehanne the Maid, to abandon your forts and depart into your own country, or I will raise such a war-cry against […]
Attacking the reputation of a Catholic saint, no longer alive to defend herself (although it’s unlikely she would bother in any case), is a popular sport. Christopher Hitchens set the tone in 1995 with his book The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice, and since then it has been open house on one of the Catholic […]
The Lancet Commission on the Value of Death calls for the creation of a realistic utopia