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The slow cultural suicide of Europe

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on June 19, 2011

The Dutch ex-politician and right-wing intellectual Frits Bolkestein, no stranger to defying political taboos, published a remarkable article in the Wall Street Journal called “How Europe Lost Faith in Its Own Civilization.” He is not the first person to wonder … Continue reading →

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Jonathan Bowden’s Mad

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on May 25, 2009

From the publisher who brought us a new and expanded edition of L.A. Rollins’ excellent “The Myth of Natural Rights” comes  a rare little book by Jonathan Bowden called “Mad.” The book was originally published in 1989 but I have … Continue reading →

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John Rawls and the sin of merit

by Aschwin de Wolf Posted on March 26, 2009

For those who have always suspected a strong religious undertone in the writings of John Rawls, the following piece by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel will come as a revelation. Reflecting on Rawls’s senior thesis “A Brief Inquiry into the … Continue reading →

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