New Catallaxy

A proportion that must always be borne in mind by conservatives. The text below is from The Spectator Online. It’s a reminder that until Malcolm Turnbull pulled the pin on his own leadership, at least half the Liberal Party were for all practical purposes green-left socialists. No doubt something like that same proportion still are.…

Little Giant Constitutionalism, Pat Smith, Ius & Iustitium The Many Agonies of Jacobin Magazine, Sohrab Ahmari, Compact The progressive war on sex, Heba Yosry, The Critic The Great and Unreliable Informant, Anthony Esolen, American Greatness The Rise And Fall Of The Conservative Movement, Declan Leary, The American Conservative

A close and personal look at the Cultural Revolution and the Tiananmen Square Massacre The story of Amei’s life began in a warm and comfortable family in an inner suburb of Beijing. Her time in the selective high school is delightful until Mao reactivated the class war as a vehicle to retain his paramount leadership…

The Chinese have signed a security pact with the Solomon Islands.  According to the MSM, and depending on your political persuasion, the signing of this pact is either the “worst Australian foreign policy blunder since WWII” (said Penny Wong) or “the judgement was made not to engage at a foreign-minister level to ensure that Australia’s…

There is an article in The Oz on who used to be my favourite American president but is now only my second-favourite – Warren G. Harding. As the article points out, although he was president for only 29 months, he is regularly listed among the worst presidents in American history by that motley crew of…

I missed the debate. I was out. I have it recorded, waiting to be watched. Do I really, really, have to watch it? I met a neighbour who said she’d watched it; said it was very civil. And that the audience behaved. Even more reasons not to watch it. She didn’t mention the incident of…

Well, here we are.   Approaching two months since Russian forces moved into Ukraine with no resolution currently in sight.   Indeed, the opposite is true with the west, led by the United States, feeding vast quantities of weapons into the Ukrainian military. Have you noticed how muted the calls for a ceasefire are in our media?  …

The Very Voice of God Released in 1984 and based on the play by Peter Shaffer, Miloš Forman’s magnificent film Amadeus tells the fictional stories of composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri where Salieri as an old man claims to have murdered Mozart. During his confession to a priest in a mental asylum, Salieri…