The Year in Review: 2015, Year of the Quickening
Wieża Babel sama upada.¹ [“The Tower of Babel falls under its own weight”] 2015 has been an interesting year. If it is to be immediately remembered…
Mediocracy
Quote of the Week: Theresa Amato, “Grand Illusion”
“For the better part of last century, we have all been steamrolled into a big consensus pot, harmonized into the middle, so we don’t cause…
Quote of the Week: Fabian Tassano, “Mediocracy”
“The idea of defending a principle such as free speech is incompatible with mediocracy, which has room only for one precept, equality. Other principles are dismissed,…
Quote of the Week: Fabian Tassano, “Mediocracy”
“Mediocracy cannot permit genuine dissent. Apart from the fact that its ideology cannot be questioned, there is a risk that its high culture will be…
Quote of the Week: Fabian Tassano, “Mediocracy”
“The true test of an ideology’s hegemony is the degree to which its enemies feel they can criticise it on its terms, or oppose it only by…