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Capitalism Isn’t Broken—But Our Politics Might Be
While liberal democracy gave everybody the political freedom to pursue their own interests, it was the practice of capitalism within it that gave the…
Collectivism & Individualism: Bridging the Gap
In reality, individualism and collectivism are simply two basic aspects of human nature. There is a very good biological reason for this seeming…
Five Reasons Why Racism Remains Unresolved
There are five very clear reasons why the problem of racism remains unresolved, and until they are understood and addressed, there is no chance of…
The Political Exploitation of Empathy and Altruism
Our illusion that we are significantly empathetic and altruistic as a species presumably rests upon the fact that some people are indeed both very…
'Oh, the Humanity!' A Christian Perspective on Humanism in an Increasingly Anti-Human World
The easier it becomes to dehumanise our opponents or even our peers, the easier it becomes to treat them inhumanely.
Gold Standard - And The End Of Individualism
The social phenomenon of the extraordinary growth of the Western administrative state, which started in the early 1930s, applied not only to the US, but…
Why The West Appears To Be Rejecting Liberal Democracy
The supernatural concept is that of objective morality: the belief that there is only one moral code in the universe that governs everybody’s life.
The Disparity Between Our Empathy and Our Altruism
The call for greater empathy and altruism in society has long played a major role in Western religions and political ideologies.
Moral Authority As The Means Of Ideological Control
The degree of rationality and secularity that characterised Western thought over the 19th and 20th centuries, enabling the rise of liberal democracy…
Paradox of Ignorance
Of all the relevant knowledge known to the human species at any given time, any individual will only know an infinitely small fraction of it.
The Triumph of Socialism Over Liberal Democracy
The subsequent rejection of minority rule led, understandably, to some conflict as to what political system should be instituted in place of it, that…
CRT: Liberalism's Woke Spectre
Liberals need to acknowledge that racism is not a spiritual phenomenon or a mortal sin, but a negative human psychological trait common to everybody…
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