Tag: culture wars

Culture Wars Creating Increasing Dependence on Authority, Human Rights Barrister Says

The “choppy seas of the culture wars”are creating an increasing dependence on authority, a human rights barrister has said. Speaking to NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, Anna Loutfi, barrister and head of legal at the Bad Law Project, said the insecurity people feel during the “highly polarized” political climate is not only blocking people from speaking…


The Culture War in American Legal Education Is Expanding

A broad-ranging and growing progressive movement in American legal education and higher education is upending and reforming policies and practices in pursuit of increasing diversity in student bodies, as The Epoch Times reported recently. In the legal education sector, the movement is one in which some of the most prestigious law schools, and the American…


‘Not in Our Children’s Best Interest’: Australian Opposition Leader Declares War on Radical Ideology

Australian Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to work with families to fight against the radical gender theory being taught in the classrooms that is contrary to the values of millions of Australians. In his budget reply speech, delivered on Oct. 27, Dutton said the education system allowed ideological-driven advocates have “too much influence” over…


The Long March of Woke Ideology Through the Universities

Commentary Universities, as a result of the 60s and 70s cultural revolution and the decision by the cultural left to take the long march through the institutions, have especially been affected by politically correct ideology and wokeness. Such is the dominance of neo-Marxist and postmodern-inspired ideology that left-of-centre academics in a range of subjects dominate…


Living Life Under Occupation

Commentary One of the striking things about life in wartime is how normal it can be for ordinary people. Imagine life in Paris under German occupation for four years during the Second World War. Children were born, and old people died—of natural causes. Teachers taught, and kids went to school to learn. Shops, churches, and…


A Permanent State of Hostilities

Commentary Have you noticed that there are a lot more wars going on these days than just the one in eastern Europe—and that most of them appear to be going on right here in the USA? The Biden administration’s strategy in the Ukrainian war is said to be to “bleed Russia dry” by doing all…


Dissolving Disney’s Special District ‘Catastrophic’ for Local Taxpayers

The Reedy Creek Improvement District’s (RCID) Board of Supervisors meets on April 27 for its regularly scheduled monthly meeting at the district’s offices on Hotel Plaza Boulevard in Lake Buena Vista. On the agenda is an appointment, an amended work order, and a proposed solar power purchase agreement—typical stuff for a special district accorded most…


Letting Our Lives Speak: Some Ways to Fight the Culture Wars

Traditionalists of whatever political stripe seem to have given up on winning the culture wars waged over the last five decades or so. The past year in particular has brought setbacks and defeats: the removal or desecration of statues of American heroes, schools erasing the names of some of these same heroes, classics removed from…