What Should Intellectual Conservatives be Doing?
Dr David McGrogan contrasts the 'teleocracy' of Left-progressive thought with that of the authentic conservative who eschews grand social designs for the preservation of a civil way of life.
Tag: Conservatism
The West has Gone Woke – Yet the Paranoid Left Still Believes Right-Wing Ideas Control Culture
The Western world has gone all-in for wokeness, yet many on the Left still persist in their paranoid delusion that Right-wing ideas control the culture, says Dr David McGrogan.
The Gary Lineker ‘Crisis’ is a Distraction From the Real Problem with the BBC
What Gary Lineker should or should not be allowed to say matters not a jot when set against the real scandal: that our national broadcaster could not care less about fairly representing both sides to contentious debates.
Sargon vs Hitchens: This Year’s First Epic Twitter Debate
The Twitter debate between Peter Hitchens and Carl Benjamin, AKA Sargon, is probably the most epic of the year to date. Read a summary in the Daily Sceptic of Benjamin’s reflections on it.
De Excidio Britanniae: or Peter Hitchens’s Black Pill
Dr James Alexander, a politics professor, analyses the conservative philosophy of Peter Hitchens, whom he thinks is as talented a polemicist as his brother Christopher.
British Conservatives Can Learn From the Success of their American Counterparts
Douglas Murray has written a good column for the Telegraph in which he says British Conservative leaders could learn a useful lesson from Ron DeSantis – abandon wishy-washy centrism and robustly defend traditional values.
The History of the Decline and Fall of Conservatism
by Dr. James Alexander The Covid crisis is of great political significance. It may in fact mark the end of the Conservative Party. The history of conservatism is usually told in terms of politicians – from Peel, Disraeli and Salisbury through Churchill to Thatcher, Major, Cameron, May and Johnson; or in terms of shifts in economic policy: from protection to free trade in the mid-19th century, from free trade to tariff reform in the early 20th century, from Keynesian consensus to monetarism in the late 20th century; or in terms of thinkers like Burke, Oakeshott, Scruton etc. But I want to propose something a bit different, not only for the sake of history itself, but in order to understand the contemporary crisis of the Conservative Party. The history of conservatism, when seen from sufficient distance, falls into four, perhaps now five, stages. Conservatism was named in the 1830s for the politics of Peel. But it was not a happy politics. It was a reactionary, even late, politics, a politics of a belated and reluctant concession to the events of 1828 to 1832 in which the old order of church and state and of mixed government (King, Lords and Commons) was replaced by the English version of a revolutionary, enlightened order in which the sorts of ideas which had been espoused ...
