How to resist the new totalitarianism

Nov 12, 2020 by

by Niall Gooch, UnHerd: Those who fled Communist regimes for the West are hearing terrifying echoes from the past. In late 2018, a woman called Kristie Higgs was sacked from her job at a school in Gloucestershire because of comments made...

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Analyst of Totalitarianism—Reading Simon Leys Today

Oct 6, 2020 by

by David Adler, Quillette: Simon Leys was perhaps the pre-eminent Western chronicler of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, and it is worth returning to his work for its vivid first-hand accounts of life in Beijing during this period. But Leys was...

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Will no one resist the new totalitarianism?

Jan 31, 2020 by

by Douglas Murray, UnHerd: I’ve been thinking a lot about totalitarianism recently. It’s unsettling, for as I do so, I notice its seedlings in every day life. And these are the same seedlings which, in the past, grew into horrible,...

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The Left Claims There’s An ‘Epidemic’ Of Anti-Trans Hate Crimes. They’re Lying. Here Are The Facts.

Nov 28, 2019 by

by Matt Walsh, Daily Wire: We’ve reached a point where even statistics can be bigoted and hateful. That’s why journalist Andy Ngo was recently suspended from Twitter — he reported verifiable, statistically based facts. Ngo received the...

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Is woke culture totalitarian?

Aug 20, 2019 by

by Eric Kaufmann, Unherd: A majority of people polled in the US, Canada and Britain say political correctness is a problem. And no wonder. Today mainstream politicians, parties, think tanks and bureaucrats tie themselves in knots to avoid...

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Would you call a bearded man ‘madam’?

Jul 16, 2019 by

by Alexander Boot: Or, put another way, would any sane person do so? Wrong question.Here’s the right one: What kind of society can allow the punishment of a man who refuses to kowtow to collective madness by denying the evidence before...

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