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French protests: Is it game over for Macron’s centrists before elections?

Update: Protest Fury Engulfs France As 800,000 Take To Streets, Violent Clashes And Arson Spread | CRUX Al Jazeera. Paris, France – After nationwide protests turned violent, French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday night tried to strike a balance between acknowledging the concerns of students demanding changes to the education system and criticising rioters. “Those who… Read More French protests: Is it game over for Macron’s centrists before elections?

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What do progressives really want? By Lionel Shriver

The New Criterion. “Progressives do seem especially concerned for their own virtue. But I think the concern is more oftenfor being seen as virtuous. Being good is a great deal harder than appearing to be good, if only because the course of real goodness is diabolically difficult to chart. Real goodness is often private and unacknowledged, because… Read More What do progressives really want? By Lionel Shriver

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The Dead Babies and Cruel Nuns Whoppers

Anti-Catholicism Today. The Tuam Dead Babies and Magdalene Laundries Whoppers. Brendan O’Neill,EditorSpiked Online. And more. For proof of the maxim that ‘A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on’, look no further than the Tuam 800 dead babies story. Courtesy of a modern media that seems more interested in titillating readers… Read More The Dead Babies and Cruel Nuns Whoppers

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Consider Michel Foucault

Or, where the Left would take us. by Roger Kimball.The New Criterion. On The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller. Michel Foucault’s personal perversions involved him in private tragedy. The celebration of his intellectual perversions by academics continues to be a public scandal. The career of this “representative man” of the twentieth century really represents one of… Read More Consider Michel Foucault

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Savage Calls Out Sanders and Mamdani. Opinion.

“Savage reacts to Mayor Zohran’s Mamdani’s “seditious” Independence Day speech. Savage warns that the United States is approaching a political crisis as communist and socialist ideologies pose a growing threat. He recounts the rise of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge’s rule in Cambodia that resulted in the deaths of millions. Drawing parallels between Cambodia’s… Read More Savage Calls Out Sanders and Mamdani. Opinion.

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The Great Liberal Death Wish. Malcolm Muggeridge.

Note / SH: Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, and Harold Laski were prominent members of the Fabian Society, which aimed to promote socialism, abortion and euthanasia through gradual reform rather than revolution. They were influential intellectuals in the early 20th century, contributing significantly to political and cultural discussions of their time. Their legacy impacts us… Read More The Great Liberal Death Wish. Malcolm Muggeridge.

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“The Issue Is Always” and Only “the Revolution”

Judith Butler, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Mary Daly, Catherine MacKinnon, UNESCO… Dr James Lindsay is an author, mathematician, and political commentator. He has written eight books spanning a range of subjects including education, postmodern theory, and critical race theory. Dr Lindsay is the Founder of New Discourses, an organization dedicated to shining the… Read More “The Issue Is Always” and Only “the Revolution”

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Internationalist Power and the “Scientific” “Great Reset”

Why is it happening? Why all the talk over many years about the attempt at overcoming biological genetic barriers? How has “Science” itself been transvalued? And how dangerous is it all? Who are the key Internationalist players? Rockefeller, Zbigniew Brzeziński, Peter Singer, Bill Gates…and so many others. A new religion called “Science” with all of… Read More Internationalist Power and the “Scientific” “Great Reset”

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There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again

Updated. What is the political Left hiding? “The French Revolution is the model”.  In this long-overdue episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host Dr. James Lindsay takes you through the main body of the Manifesto of the Communist Party: preface, chapter one, and chapter two. In a subsequent episodes (Volume Two in this mini-series) he will… Read More There is a Spectre Haunting Europe and the UK Again

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The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie

The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now “The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness, and goodness in the form of wise restraint was labeled evil, backward, racist,… Read More The Persistence of the Ideological Totalitarian Lie

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Why Does Tudor History Matter— (& not Just for Britain)?

Suzannah Lipscomb “The decision to exercise the rights of his royal supremacy to decide theological doctrine and practice, despite Anne Boleyn’s fall and Henry’s remarriage to Jane Seymour (who was rumoured to be conservative in religion) came as a surprise to some European commentators, who had hoped for Henry’s return to the Catholic fold once… Read More Why Does Tudor History Matter— (& not Just for Britain)?

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Universities being investigated  as part of Trump campaign to end D.E.I. programs

Colin Brinkley, Associated Press. WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 50 universities are being investigated for alleged racial discrimination as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to end diversity and equity programs that his officials say exclude white and Asian American students. The Education Department announced the new investigations on Friday, one month after issuing a… Read More Universities being investigated  as part of Trump campaign to end D.E.I. programs

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Goal of Mass Islamicization of Europe: Destroy Christian Past

Finishing off what the French Revolution began. Athanasius Schneider, O.R.C. (born Anton Schneider on 7 April 1961) is a Catholic prelate, serving as the Auxiliary Bishop of Astana in Kazakhstan. Schneider is known for his traditionalism. He has criticized clergy members who he believes do not fully adhere to the faith and instead surrender to what he calls a “cruel pagan world.” In 2014, he… Read More Goal of Mass Islamicization of Europe: Destroy Christian Past

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The Creative Destruction school of Marxist-Leninist thought.

Or, dreams come true… In No Speed Limit, author and cultural analyst Steven Shaviro writes, “In his science fiction novel Pop Apocalypse, Lee Konstantinou imagines the existence of a “Creative Destruction” school of Marxist-Leninist thought. The adherents of this school “interpret Marx’s writings as literal predictions of the future, so they consider it their mission… Read More The Creative Destruction school of Marxist-Leninist thought.

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Another Catholic Church Burns in Northern France. Then there is Canada.

“THEY’ (you know who) have burnt done another Catholic Church in northern France. Who would hate Jesus enough to burn down a thousand churches a year ?” And CNA 2021. Why France is losing one religious building every two weeks. 40 churches have burned since 2023 while Pope Francis has not stopped posing and laughing… Read More Another Catholic Church Burns in Northern France. Then there is Canada.

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