One of the strangest trends in modern politics is the growth of the professional Anti-Fascist. The bread and butter of these men and women is in vanquishing the Fascist hordes that seem to crop up every week or so. In the United Kingdom, where I live, these types congregate in organizations with names like ‘Hope not Hate’ and ‘Unite Against Fascism’. Meanwhile, the magazine ‘Searchlight’ scours the seedy underbelly of British politics to find the next big ‘far-right’ threat. You, like me, might find the idea of a Western democracy succumbing to a fascist takeover somewhat far-fetched. Even just a […]

Last year I found myself browsing abebooks in the days before Christmas and came across a text now largely forgotten: ‘Slouching Toward Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline’. It was by the late jurist Robert Bork – still probably best known for his failed nomination to the Supreme Court. Bork’s mission in this book is to explain how a degrading popular culture came about, which he lays firmly at the door of Modern Liberalism in all its egalitarian showiness and vapidity. His criticisms are biting to say the least. Here everyone, and everything, gets it in the neck. For this […]