Margaret Hickey reviews
“Maybe there were some secret societies?”
by Benjamin Lipscomb
A decade on from its original publication, Legutko’s book is still the best indictment yet of our left-liberal age
 The ‘religion of antiracism’Â
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 […]
Mchangama primarily focuses on the legal or state restrictions on free speech
Frank Furedi, a British emeritus professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, prolific author and established social commentator, has mapped the history of what we now call identity politics in his latest book. In it he traces the century long evolution of theory and behaviour that in some ways is also a recycling of perennial issues in […]
Steven Pinker is a professor of Psychology at Harvard but is perhaps best known for his attacks on religious belief. He is part of a small self-styled intellectual elite who call themselves ‘the Brights’. Â Best known among them are Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris and the late Christopher Hitchens. It is hardly surprising that […]
What has the enactment of the Technological University legislation in March 2018 which allows for institutes of technology to apply for university status in Ireland to do with Brexit and the election of Donald Trump? That is a question that David Goodhart in his latest book ‘Head, Hand, Heart’ does not pose but points toward […]
Margaret Hickey reveiws Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
The God Hypothesis should be considered as a possible explanation for our universe.