Why liberals envy JD Vance

If you want to know the secret of J.D. Vance’s meteoric rise, at the age of 39, to Donald Trump’s choice for vice president should he win, just glance at some of the more overheated liberal analyses of Vance’s success. …

The Censorship Boomerang

Madness is rare in individuals; but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Friedrich Nietzsche

They fooled themselves. The censorship meant to keep regular people in the dark instead blinded the pseudo-elite censors and their friends. 

The …

What Roger Scruton can teach Starmer

Not long into David Cameron’s first term as Prime Minister, the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton refounded an old Tory dining club that had, for a short time in the Seventies, exerted an outsized influence on British politics. The Conservative Philosophy …