Selves and Psychologies: The Rise of the Post-Christian Self

Nov 24, 2023 by

by Glen Scrivener, Andrew Wilson, Carl Trueman.  TGC. (Podcast and Transcript) “Be true to yourself” is a dominant refrain in the Western world, but how has individualism come to be such a prominent feature of Western thought? To what...

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Idealism, Identity Politics, and Guilt That Won’t Go Away

Oct 17, 2023 by

By Trevin Wax, TGC. “Guilt has not merely lingered. It has grown, even metastasized, into an ever more powerful and pervasive element in the life of the contemporary West,” writes Wilfred McClay in his seminal essay “The Strange...

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The Age of the Museum is over

Sep 1, 2023 by

By Aris Roussinos, UnHerd. Identity politics has delivered a killer blow to anthropology. A decade ago, I spent more months than originally desired living in the bush of Sudan’s remote and war-torn Blue Nile state with SPLA-N rebels from...

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Daycare generation are now the students throwing tantrums over safe spaces

Aug 28, 2023 by

by Laura Perrins, TCW: THE Government invests billions a year in separating babies and young children from their mothers.  Challenging this heartless and uneconomic policy was a key motivation for starting this website nearly ten years...

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There is nothing progressive about identity politics

Jul 8, 2023 by

by Tom Slater, spiked: When did supporting colour-blindness, gay rights and women’s liberation become a right-wing position? We need to stop saying identity politics, wokeness, or whatever else we want to call it, is progressive. We need...

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Charles Taylor, Psychological Selfhood, and Disenchantment

Jun 13, 2023 by

By Carl Trueman, Public Discourse. This essay is part of Public Discourse’s Who’s Who series, which introduces and critically engages with important thinkers who are often referenced in political and cultural debates, but whose ideas...

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