New Catallaxy

Trans Barbarism, Nina Power, Compact What the West gets wrong about Putin, Harald Malmgren, UnHerd We Know How America Got Such a Corporate-Friendly Court, Sohrab Ahmari, Patrick Deneen and Chad Pecknold, NY Times The New Malthusians, Lyman Stone, Plough Paracelsus’s First Do No Harm: A Review by Charles Haywood, IM-1776 The Problems of Australia’s Deep Past – Part…

Everyone is suddenly wise after the event – except about the wrong event. Behold, David Crowe in the SMH, presenting what has become conventional wisdom since last Sunday: Energy crisis: A crash we all saw coming but did nothing to stop After years of slow failure in plain sight, the Australian energy system has hit…

Audrey Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4th, 1929 in Ixelles near Brussels, Audrey Hepburn spent her childhood in Belgium, England and the Netherlands. She experienced the ravages of Nazi occupation of Holland during WWII where she witnessed many traumatic events including the transportation of Dutch Jews to concentration/extermination camps plus her uncle was executed…

Leftism is a great evil. Built on lies to serve an agenda; led by a lust for power over others. The Devil’s spawn perhaps. But if so, has it always lurked within human societies; since the dawn of time? A question to which I have no answer. I’m no historian of antiquity. Three of us…

when they squeal, don’t let them go, meanie meanie miny moe In a comment I posted on the Open Thread on the weekend, I wrote how the Liberals here in Australia, just like the Republicans in the USA and the Conservatives in the UK, have long been reluctant to be mean or even to appear…

I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore ! Paddy Chayefsky is the only person to have won three solo Academy Awards for screenplay writing (both adapted and original), and it’s his third Academy Award winning script for the brilliant film Network, released back in 1976, that is the focus…

In the OT over the weekend, I asserted that the reductio of liberalism involved drag queen shows for kids, among other things, one of these other things being gay ‘marriage’, or what I prefer to call marriage redefinition. Let me explain this argument by comparing Locke’s view of marriage with the view of classical liberals…