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Xi Jinping = anti-social?
It struck me when reading a speech tonight by the Australian Ambassador to the United States, Kevin Rudd, that the kind of character that he describes in the person of Chinese President Xi Jinping, would most likely meet criteria for … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-social personality, China, international politics, respect
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Freud and sexual potency
In two academic papers from 1894 and 1895, Sigmund Freud suggests that sexual function that differs from what he considers ‘normal’ is the cause of a variety of disorders he names ‘anxiety-neuroses’. ‘Abnormal use of sexuality’ for Freud consists in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anxiety-Neuroses, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, World History
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Lesbians and feminism
I had not considered until recently the apparent link between feminism on the one hand and lesbianism on the other. The notion of sexual freedom is powerfully seductive. I was moved by a paper by Cardinal Ratzinger in the late … Continue reading
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Tagged Benedict XVI, feminism, respectable behaviour, Theology of the Body
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Rowling’s myth is the Cold War
It only just struck me recently that the Harry Potter phenomenon was a mythological representation of the Cold War: with Harry’s intent on ‘disarming’ enemies being representative of the Anglosphere’s intent to use military force to pacify enemy states and … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Cold War, fantasy, Harry Potter, hogwarts, j-k-rowling, Mythology, Soviet Union
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A culture of War Mongering in American Traditionalism
It struck me recently that one element of the culture of the United States is the inability to move from suspicion to trust. Whole swathes of the US population seem to get caught up in conspiracy theories and delusions of … Continue reading
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Tagged integrity, self respect, suspicion, United States culture
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The Islamic tilt toward Beijing
To the observant ones, the Palestinian debacle in its recent episode has revealed a striking characteristic of the Islamic world as yet unnoticed. The fact that Israel sticks out like a sore thumb in the Middle East, with its liberal … Continue reading
Christianity in England and Germany: a cultural analysis
Recently I read a statement comparing the Catholic church in Germany’s progressive agenda to Anglicanism. I have a number of problems with this point of view, which I wanted to tease out here. Obviously, Germany and England have many similarities … Continue reading
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Romeo & Juliette as core western text
I was struck recently when watching Jordan Peterson’s dialogue with Peter Kreeft, when Professor Kreeft mentioned by analogy the Romeo and Juliette story as an equivalent in some real sense to Christ’s call to discipleship. Then, more recently, I have … Continue reading
Ameliorating post-1945 Anglo-American military and cultural expansionism
In my previous post, I wrote of how after the Second World War, Anglo-American jurisprudence was influenced by German philosophy. Yet this was not the only influence of the Second World War upon the Anglophone region. The Second World War … Continue reading
Kant in postwar Anglo-American jurisprudence
In my previous post, I wrote about the postwar restitution efforts in Germany and Japan, comparing and contrasting the efforts at the time and the fruit they bore. In this post, I want to write about the effect of World … Continue reading
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Tagged jurisprudence, non-interference, scruton, world war two
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