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Pushback Against the Anti-Politics that is Tearing Society Apart
I would like to comment on Giles Fraser's article published in 'Unherd,' How the Left gave up on freedom: Today's progressives snigger at...
Peter Critchley
Apr 8, 202114 min read
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Free Speech and Good Speech
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Soren Kierkegaard I look, always,...
Peter Critchley
Feb 13, 20217 min read
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Observations on current controversies over Free Speech
Observations on Free Speech If you think a Twitter ban is Orwellian, then you really have been leading a charmed, privileged, and...
Peter Critchley
Feb 13, 202114 min read
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Beyond Symptoms
It looks like the US finally found a US-backed coup that it didn't like. At least, I hope that enough Americans didn’t like it to finally...
Peter Critchley
Jan 12, 202113 min read
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Make Orwell Fiction Again
The horn-wearing Q-shaman carrying a six-foot spear with an American stars and stripes flag tied just below the blade has been arrested....
Peter Critchley
Jan 11, 202117 min read
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Conspirituality: a Modern Distemper
‘Conspirituality’ refers to the over-lap between New Age / wellness culture and conspiracy culture. I would like to comment on issues...
Peter Critchley
Jan 7, 202113 min read
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Rational Freedom: Reconciling Autonomy and Authority
I’ve just received a new article from Unheard in my inbox, ‘Libertarianism Never Ends Well’ by Mary Harrington, December 23 2020. The...
Peter Critchley
Dec 23, 202037 min read
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How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful
How the Sophist Politics of the Contemporary ‘Left’ Liberates the Rich and Powerful I shall begin by commenting on the recent article How...
Peter Critchley
Dec 18, 202025 min read
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Redeeming Empty Promises
Redeeming Empty Promises I have been reading Jeffrey Hart, Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher...
Peter Critchley
Aug 5, 202080 min read
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