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Conservatism & the morality of impulse
New Criterion, 01/01/08 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication
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A triumvirate for our time
The basic moral drive of Western civilization in the twentieth century has been appeasement. The civilization that has come to define what...
New Criterion, 02/01/07 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Seduction & politics
The original meaning of "seduction" was "to persuade a vassal, servant, soldier, etc. to desert his allegiances or service." The OED dates that...
New Criterion, 11/01/06 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Democracy & political naivete
The major problem with democracy is the foolishness of our fellow citizens. This may sound like an arrogantly partisan remark, but it is not....
New Criterion, 03/01/06 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Michael Oakeshott: The Anti-Rationalist
MICHAEL OAKESHOTT MICHAEL OAKESHOTT The Anti-Rationalist MICHAEL OAKESHOTT's book Rationalism in Politics was a long time in the making. It...
National Review, 12/19/05 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Maurice Cowling, 1926-2005
Maurice Cowling, who died in August, just short of eighty, was a politics and history Fellow of Peterhouse in Cambridge. Some university teachers...
New Criterion, 11/01/05 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Two concepts of the moral life
One way of tracking the movement of a civilization is to follow the evolution of thought and sentiment in the moral life. The moral life is not, of...
New Criterion, 09/01/05 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Journalism: power without responsibility
Stanley Baldwin's bitter jibe that journalists enjoy "the privilege of the harlot down the ages--power without responsibility"--still resonates....
New Criterion, 02/01/05 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Nobody's fault but mine
Neil McInnes's remarkable account of the rise and fall of "Australian genocide" ("Requiem for a Genocide", Summer 2004) is a case study in one of...
National Interest, The, 12/22/04 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication -
Fundamentalism isn't the problem
Like Yossarian in Catch 22, I'm exercised by the fact that people are trying to kill me. You may remember that Yossarian was flying bombers over...
New Criterion, 06/01/04 by Kenneth Minogue · More from publication
