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Norms and Values? Give me a Break!
This article was written for the Yearbook of the Association of Clerks. With the debate on integration alive and kicking again, the big question arises: what is the culture in which to integrate? An analysis of a …
By Vincent Vos
Culture
Liberalism, a Wrong Path to Take
I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion .. . the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another .. . It is inconsistent with any …
By Robert Lemm
Culture
Mencius Moldbug: The Second Coming
This article is named the Second Coming, as it is both a summary and an expansion of my recent article in which I gauged the rise of monarchical Caesarism of whom Curtis Yarvin – also known as Mencius Moldbug – is a …
By Sid Lukkassen
Culture
Why Is There a Left?
The original article was published on American Thinker and can be found here . The assumption that a "Left" and "Right" must inevitably define and dominate our politics is accepted by almost everyone. But it is far from …
By Stephen Baskerville
Culture
Why the United States Went ‘Communist’
The original article was published on American Thinker and can be found here . Some four years ago, the radical left staged what amounted to a coup d’état and took control of the United States government. The events …
By Stephen Baskerville
Culture
Daniel Dennett: a Pragmatic Optimist in a Time of Postmodern Scepticism
Original publishing date: 24 april 2024 The American philosopher, Daniel Dennett, has died at the age of 82. He published works on consciousness, the philosophy of the human mind and artificial intelligence - weighty …
By Sid Lukkassen
Culture
A closer look at “The week of Spring Fever”
The deconstruction of normativity and ideals FVD International is republishing an article from 2023 because every year the Dutch education system teaches children about sex in a highly inappropriate manner. Our …
By Camille Scholtz
Culture
Party leader Baudet (FVD) asks parliamentary questions about Dutch public broadcaster NPO programme Sekspedia
NPO broadcaster BNNVARA launched the programme Sekspedia in May 2023. According to the broadcaster, there is an "overly conservative body of thought about sex” in our society. It sets out to change that. The series is …
By Editorial Team
Culture
Why Jordan Peterson is wrong
The famous Canadian psychologist, Jordan B. Peterson, gave a speech in Amsterdam on 25 October, attended by thousands of visitors. He received overwhelming applause when he spoke out against ‘woke’ and characterised the …
By Sid Lukkassen
Culture
Part 2 - Targeting the vulnerable: Why Woke wants our children
In Part 1, ‘Bearing the Nation: “Woman” as the last Bastion’, I discussed why womanhood as an exclusive category has come under attack by woke Leftists, trans-activists, and gender theorists. The deconstruction of the …
By Simone Kerseboom
Culture
The Coronation of King Charles III
The coronation of King Charles III in Westminster Abbey, London, on 6 May 2023 is an extremely rare event, full of important political lessons for conservatives, interested as they are in the conjunction of tradition …
By John Laughland
Culture
Part 1 - Bearing the nation: “woman” as the last bastion
Women are the bearers of the nation. They not only physically produce the next generation of citizens, the children that will make up the nation of the future; they also bear the nation in a figurative sense. As mothers …
By Simone Kerseboom
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