Ideology

University of Austin: A safe space for cancel culture’s victims?

Bari Weiss and a cohort of distressed conservatives have launched the unaccredited University of Austin to fix a “broken” US higher education system they believe is under assault from “liberal” intolerance.

The Afghans who stayed are stuck between a rock and a hard place

Afghans are glad to be liberated from a corrupt system but are terrified at the prospect of a tyrannical alternative.

Has the American smile gone forever?

American civil society, undermined deliberately or unwittingly by both parties for short-term political gain or ideological satisfaction, is weaker than at any time since 1860.

As established certainties fail, an era of new narratives reshape the West

The Trump era and Brexit have brought with it terminology long consigned to the fringes, their potency is now respectably trumpeted by mainstream politicians.