Defeating Islam in the Battle of Ideas

My article from the October 2017 edition of Quadrant magazine is out from behind the firewall: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2017/10/defeating-islam-battle-ideas/

The Paris Statement & Roger Scruton

Sir Roger Scruton

My favourite living philosopher, Roger Scruton, co-authored the Paris Statement: http://politiek.tpo.nl/2017/10/07/the-paris-statement-a-europe-we-can-believe/


Twice I have reviewed Roger Scruton's books. Here: http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2011/04/the-delusions-of-modern-progressives/  And here: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2013/05/how-to-save-the-environment-from-green-ideologues/


Wikipedia credits me with a definition of Roger Scruton's form of conservatism - "High Toryism for Common People": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Tory 

French philosopher accuses Erdogan of waging the crudest anti-Semitic campaign

Bernard Henri Levy

This is worth a read: https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/10/09/bernard-henri-levy-accuses-turkish-president-erdogan-of-pushing-crudest-worst-antisemitic-campaign-in-wake-of-kurdish-independence-vote/

Standing Up for the House of Freedom

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Here is my latest article, to be found in the September 2017 edition of Quadrant magazine, just released from behind the paywall: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2017/09/standing-house-freedom/

Great article by James McCann on Jerry Seinfeld

Spot on, James McCann: http://adelaidereview.com.au/arts/streaming/stream-time-jerry-before-seinfeld-review/

Democrats, Republicans and Homeless Voters

This is a great article in First Things: https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2017/09/democrats-republicans-and-homeless-voters 

Daryl McCann's piece in the Autumn 2017 edition of Salisbury Review

Here is my 'Conservative Classic' column on David Bentley Hart's Atheist Delusions

David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies was published in 2009 as a direct response to the phenomenon of militant atheism that, at the time, caught the imagination of the book- buying public in the Anglosphere. Prominent amongst these ‘fashionable enemies’ were the so-called ‘Four Horsemen of New Atheism’: Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens. All of these atheist fundamentalists were, in their previous intellectual endeavours, either brilliant or at least notable figures. Experts on religion, alas, they never were, and Hart relishes the opportunity to expose their shortcomings.