Category: Articles
Democracy isn’t All it’s Cracked Up to Be
Professor David Thunder is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Navarra’s Institute for Culture and Society in Pamplona, Spain. He is author of Citizenship and the Pursuit of the Worthy Life (Cambridge University Press, 2014). Twitter: @davidjthunder As Europe, the United...
Burke’s Right Minds: Italian Distributionism
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. To describe what distributism is in 500-1000 words is an impossible mission. I will therefore...
Burke’s Right Minds: Michael J. Dwyer – Classical Liberal
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. I was born in 1969, less than a generation after the death of Hitler and...
Burke’s Right Minds: David Quinn – Social Conservative
Burke’s Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. A few years ago I was addressing an audience along with Michael McDowell. I described...
Raging at Bono
I am not a fan of U2. I first encountered the band in 2003 at the opening ceremony for the Special Olympics, at a time I was vaguely aware of a song called Beautiful Day and didn’t even recognise Pride...
TCDSU Has a Problem With the Concept of Restraint
College students have a vast variety of traits they’re famous for. Most of these fall under remit of the classic Seven Deadly Sins. You know; gluttony, lust, sloth, that sort of thing. Of course, they’re also known for being annoying...
Burke’s Right Minds: Paddy Manning – Conservatarian
Burke's Right Minds is a project exploring and promoting viewpoints within the conservative intellectual sphere, jointly run by The Burkean and the Edmund Burke Institute. I am a Conservatarian Being gay made me a libertarian, being a child of the...
The Nation or the Market
The Nation or the Market: Why Ireland's Traditionalists Must Break from the Trappings of British and American Conservatism. The Tories and the Republicans, Thatcherites and Reaganistas. In the Anglophone world, they are the pinnacle of Conservatism - small Government, lax...
Houses as Cars and the State of Dublin Planning
If you want to sell a car in the European Union, your offering has to meet quite a lot of very specific standards. For example, Commission Regulation 1008/2010, a six-thousand-word epic: “… concerning type-approval requirements for windscreen wiper and washer...
Blasphemy is Gone, Now Let’s Put Free Speech in Our Constitution
Although the repeal of blasphemy has passed, it is important to make the case why this is actually a good thing for the Right in Ireland. Instead of another blow to old ways and tradition, the Right should be looking...