BY PAUL T HORGAN Hannah Arendt was wrong when she used Adolf Eichmann as an example of the concept of the banality of evil. This was perhaps a method of denigrating and trivialising an object of dislike or disgust. We see this all the time when socialists mock and insult the institutions that they despise from the monarchy downwards. Eichmann, Nazi Germany’s top bureaucrat charged … Continue reading The Banality of Evil
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN There are certain words and phrases that should stand out as obvious red flags. People who talk in a paranoid fashion about “they” all the time, or warn you to “not use Google and use DuckDuckGo instead”. Those who bring up the “fifth plane” whenever 9/11 is mentioned. Or those whose default position for government spending strategy is “the magic money tree” … Continue reading Just Don’t Get It
BY SAM HOOPER The good aspects of this populist insurgency in America and Britain need saving from horrified (and increasingly organised) antidemocratic elites – but also from cynical and incompetent populist leaders who are squandering our last best hope of democratic renewal. For all the furious words being written and opinions expressed of late, nothing much seems to be changing. Despite a political discourse which … Continue reading We’re Losing this War
