The language and behaviour of the Woke movement seem to mimic those of traditional theistic religion,
Why are progressive activists reluctant to denounce abuses overseas?
The trial of Socrates was the most famous cancellation of antiquity, even unto his own ritual humiliation and suicide. At his trial, he was accused of corrupting the young and of not worshipping the Gods of the city; and for that he was commanded to drink hemlock, the extract of a poisonous plant. It has […]
Jonathon Van Maren interviews Danish journalist Iben Thranholm about the revival of Christianity and traditional values in Russia, the growing secularism and wokeism in the West, and the ramifications of the coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns.
From 2012 to 2017 the decision to relocate the National Maternity Hospital at Holles Street to a site on the Elm Park campus of St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, owned by the Religious Sisters of Charity, created sustained levels of public controversy. Indeed, the proposal was attacked from every side of the political and cultural […]
The Social Democrats hosted a webinar last Wednesday to discuss the broad topic of left unity. The participants were Sinn Féin TD Éoin Ó Broin, Social Democrat TD Gary Gannon, Labour Senator Annie Hoey, People Before Profit TD Gino Kenny, and UCD Professor Emeritus Kathleen Lynch. A number of things struck me. First of all […]
A Christmas card featuring Karl Marx might have raised a few cheap laughs for Sinn Féin’s Fintan Warfield, but there was very little of good cheer about the father of socialism. Even apart from the fact that Marx was a militant atheist who hated both his own Jewish heritage – which he stereotyped much as […]