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Why Human Social-Bonding is Naturally Anti-Liberal

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Post published:February 6, 2023
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This talk examines the eternal war between human civil societies and the egalitarian State, explaining in close detail how human social bonding naturally creates a myriad of in-group privileges without which there can be no group bonding. This in turn…

Pro-abortion activists protest in front of the Supreme Court in Washington on May 3, 2022. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Fallacy of Human Rights

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Post published:January 12, 2023
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“Human rights” are everywhere, and are everywhere described with astonishing vagueness as something “inherent” in all human beings, simply because we are human. It’s a circular assertion. Largely in reaction to the tragedies and slaughters of World War II, the…

Six Kinds of Freedom

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Post published:December 12, 2022
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This is a talk about a half-dozen conceptions of “freedom” found in human societies from ancient times to the present. It is a term everyone assumes is self-explanatory, has the same meaning at all times, and is easily understood. But…

Here’s What’s Wrong With Human “Rights”

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Post published:December 5, 2022
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Many popular assumptions about “rights” are fully exposed in this talk. What is a “right”? The definition defended is that a right is not some mystical property of a human being, as many imagine. It is simply “a defensible claim”,…

Hitler’s “True Democracy”

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Post published:November 22, 2022
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This lecture is guaranteed to be a shock to Western citizens, for we have all been trained to accept the common notion that Hitler was a totalitarian despot. From the perspective of our own “liberal” democracies, that’s true. He was…

Karl Marx’s “True Democracy”

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Post published:November 15, 2022
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In a prior discussion (“How Democracy Becomes Totalitarian”, posted on YouTube Nov. 9th) the surprising lockstep path from the theory of egalitarian democracy to the actual totalitarian state, beginning with the example of the murderous French Revolution, was outlined in…

How Democracy Becomes Totalitarian

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Post published:November 9, 2022
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The phrase “totalitarian democracy” at first sounds very odd. How could that be? Aren’t these two political systems opposites? That’s what most people believe. But as this talk explains, and as an influential French critic has remarked, “democracy is the…

Queen Elizabeth II, Bear-Hats, and Cathedrals

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Post published:September 12, 2022
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We never knew why, or thought we were good enough to deserve it, but in the fall of 1952, after winning the Kiwanis music festival prize for best boys’ choir, we were invited by the British Commonwealth Youth Movement to…

Interview with Steve Paiken, Host of TVO, on my book “The War Against The Family” (1993).

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Post published:September 9, 2022
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By the time of this interview the book was already #4 in Canada on the Coles Bestseller list, although it was banned by a few major book sellers such as Duthie’s Books in Vancouver, taken off the shelves at some…

Wokeness: A New Religion?

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Post published:July 25, 2022
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Civilizations tend to repeat the ideological pattern that made them strong in the first place. At first, these patterns have theological form and substance. But if belief in God becomes obsolete, they tend to continue the same pattern in secular…