New Catallaxy

Tag: freedom

  • You’re the farm

    I was stooged again by the missus and ended up at Southland Shopping Centre on Sunday. She’s got a way of making lunch not seem like shopping and I fell for it again like the pasty I am. So there’s a new Japanese that seems nice and the missus told me about the robots that…

  • If you think she is just a joke you are missing the point

    I have suspected for a long time that the American government, nominally under Joe Biden, is not only trying to subvert our civilisation, but they are doing it in a way so that no one can be of any doubt that it is entirely intentional. The point of Orwell’s 1984 was to ensure that we…

  • Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum

    It was the very thought that came into my own head the moment I heard this: ‘Reality of our time’: Dutton warns Australians to prepare for war. Of course, my Latin is a bit rusty so the thought occurred to me only in English. However, the more up-to-date and erudite chaps and chapesses at The Spectator…

  • Surely the leaders of the American left do not believe the things they say they believe

    This is an article by the incomparable David Mamet: American Occupation. Let me get to the core points he makes: Over the last two years in America, I’ve witnessed our own forces of evil with incredulity, despair, and rage. Corruption, blasphemy, and absurdity have been accepted by one-half of the electorate as the cost of doing…

  • Justin Trudeau World Historical Leader

    I know, it’s all just ancient history  by now. But for me, it is the old country, so that watching it all unfold is beyond incredible. And to understand all this more deeply, there is Jordan Peterson to help others make sense of what is going on: Dr. Jordan Peterson Tells Fellow Canadians They Have…

  • We have stepped into the political unknown

    Fascism is the amalgam of the corporate state with totalitarian political structures. Communism pretended it was international. Fascism is socialism within a single country.  We seem to live in our own version of that time in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland. I have tried to find something that matches my own views on what…

  • Carrying the load for the whole of Western Civilisation

      The Battle of Quebec, Queenston Heights, Lundy’s Lane, Vimy Ridge, Deippe, Juno, Moscow 1972, not to forget Laura Secord. And now the Battle of Parliament Hill, Ottawa. You don’t want to mess with Canadians, when they’re really angry. And they are really angry. And bless them, they are carrying the load for the whole of Western Civilisation. …

  • Our media is as pro-lockdown, pro-mandate as Justin Trudeau

    So Southern Ontario with its flat featureless terrain. But all these years later, it is still as familiar as home. Meanwhile, there has still been no mention of any of this in the local press, so far as I can see. Our own media is as pro-lockdown, pro-mandate as Justin Trudeau. And then there is…

  • Free speech is your only protection from a tyrannical government

    Let me come back to my articles on conservatism that was published in Quadrant at the end of last year. Here’s the conclusion at the end of the second article, Conservative Thought in the Time of Covid (Part II): These are the elements of conservatism as it needs to be understood if we are to defend…

  • Why are we taking medical advice from Daniel Andrews and Anthony Fauci?

    From a comments thread at Instapundit. Of course you wouldn’t want to doubt the vaccines. Correlation is NOT causation, but it is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for causation. If the vaccines work, then high vaccination rates MUST be correlated w/ lower death rates ABSENT a confounding variable. Of course, the mere fact that confounding…