Iceland is an island, considerably larger than Scotland in area, but with just over 360,000 people, no larger in population than an average-sized British city. Nonetheless, in the nearly 1,100…
Category: Sovereign Nations
The Moral Panic Over ‘Misinformation’ – Desmond Berg
Government public-information advertising has been a staple of British life for many years. Anyone who lived through the 1970s will recall the many short films that were produced to warn…
A Blueprint for a Pacifist, Socialist Republic – Desmond Berg
Photo credit: Matt Johnson This has been a year of such astonishing and unforeseeable events that it seems to be taking some time for the full impact of what has…
Yes, There Is Such a Thing as Cancel Culture – Desmond Berg
On July 7th, 153 mostly left-leaning intellectuals wrote a letter to Harper’s Magazine, expressing their opposition to “a new set of moral attitudes and political commitments that tend to weaken our norms of…
The True Birth of Freedom – Desmond Berg
Careful readers of America’s Revolutionary Mind will no doubt see its kinship with Harry V. Jaffa’s A New Birth of Freedom,” writes C. Bradley Thompson about his recent book. I make no…
Curse Him, Then Copy Him – Desmond Berg
By all accounts, Donald J Trump is an atypical character among the men who have served as President of the United States. That maybe the reason for the atypically hostile,…
America, You’ve Been Blacklisted: McCarthyism Refashioned for a New Age – Desmond Berg
“If we confuse dissent with disloyalty—if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong, unpopular, eccentric or unorthodox—if we deny the essence of racial equality then hundreds of…
African Cardinal: BLM Seeks ‘Destruction of the Nuclear Family’ – Desmond Berg
The formidable archbishop of Durban, South Africa, said that the goals and methods of Black Lives Matter in the United States have little in common with the anti-Apartheid movement he…
France’s Cathedrals on Fire: ‘The Final Stage of De-Christianization’? – Desmond Berg
A leading curator of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Keith Christiansen, was criticized for posting on Instagram a painting of Alexandre Lenoir saving France’s monuments from the ravages of…
John Ioannidis Warned COVID-19 Could Be a ‘Once-In-A-Century’ Data Fiasco. He Was Right – Desmond Berg
On Thursday, a Florida health official told a local news station that a young man who was listed as a COVID-19 victim had no underlying conditions. The answer surprised reporters,…