Christopher Chantrill

It’s good to know that the daughter of two academics, one a Tamil Brahmin and the other a Marixt economist, is just Middle-Class Kamala.But now the last echo of the Kennedy mystique, RFK Jr., has plumped for Trump, after releasing a screed…

I have a question. Does Vice-President Harris’s proposed policy of a “ban on grocery store price gouging” constitute “gaslighting” as defined by the experts at Psychology Today? Gaslighting is an insidious form of manipulation and…

The two most notable philosophical notions in the western canon are Plato’s Cave and Kant’s Appearances.In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave we are asked to imagine that we humans are sitting in chains watching shadows on a wall. It’s the only…

Remember the Sixties? Our Democrat friends gave us guns and butter: a war in Vietnam to stop a domino falling in the Cold War and LBJ’s Great Society eye-watering spending on welfare, Medicare, and Medicaid. In 1968 Americans had had enough…

While our Democratic friends congratulate each other every hour on the hour about the wonders of presidential candidate Kamala Harris we might as well take a break from developing our critical theory of the ongoing undemocratic process of…

Frankly, as the ladies say, I am “exhausted” after a week of assassination attempts, Secret Service blame dodging, and Donald Trump infuriating the noblesse by ad-libbing his acceptance speech.But it all comes down to this. If we elect…

One thing that our liberal friends know is that they are the good guys. Because Change. Because Justice. Because fighting white racism. Because equality.One fine day our liberal friends are going to wake up and realize that they are the bad…

Let’s jump the gun on far-white populist nationalism and ask the big question. How should the rising populists, from Hungary to the U.S. to Britain to France, govern?The question becomes urgent now that our Democratic friends are sounding…

Suppose the Biden meltdown in last week’s presidential debate was a message from God, telling our Democratic friends that their progressive movement and the Progressive Dynasty it has spawned has reached its end? Suppose God is saying,…

I used to think that Eric Hoffer had the last word on the natural cycle of political mass movements. And I first wrote about it in 2010. Pat Buchanan hauls out a quote from Eric Hoffer today. “Every great movement begins as a cause,…