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Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Carlos Perona Calvete March 28, 2023

Defenders of ‘the nation’ often fall back on practical issues of scale and power balance, ignoring the Biblical and Platonic tradition that celebrates the diversity of nations as an aesthetic good.

Yet the King Speaks: The Silent Descent of Language and Politics

Ábris Béndek March 28, 2023

Consumer society and digital technology have demolished our linguistic spaces, shattering our foundational skillset for living virtuously and politically.

The ‘Global Majority’: Racially Divisive Linguistic Nonsense

Steven Tucker February 26, 2023

Every single person on planet earth belongs to an ethnic minority, considered globally; it is only within a specific local context that any of them can be considered ethnic majorities.

Dangerous Dictionaries

Frank Haviland December 28, 2022

It may be just a few words in a book no one reads, but the fact that the purveyors of truth have capitulated to a lie that would not fool a toddler, should terrify any logical thinker.

Culture and Politics on a ‘Fortress Island’

André P. DeBattista November 15, 2022

A people do not become a nation—however tiny and insignificant a nation—until they possess a literature; just as a man becomes a man only when he reveals his personality through speech.

Reaction to Attempted Ban on Spanish from Catalan Classrooms

Carlos Perona Calvete November 5, 2022

The creation of a monolingual Catalonia is central to the separatist project, albeit thoroughly out of step with the region’s history.

We Need to Keep Calling Ourselves Conservatives

Sebastian Morello October 27, 2022

Names are important, and the name ‘conservative’ is important if we are not to forget who we are and what we strive for. Conservatives are not merely reactionaries. We affirm something. We affirm our civilisation and we want to conserve it.

French Language Losing Ground in Algeria

Hélène de Lauzun October 22, 2022

Anti-French sentiment is on the rise in Algeria, especially since Emmanuel Macron’s statements in October 2021, when he condemned the political-military system in place.

France’s War over Language: Neutral Pronoun ‘iel’ Spreading in Academe

Tristan Vanheuckelom February 23, 2022

France is no novice to this particular battleground. It was only in late October that Le Petit Robert announced the inclusion of the neutral third person pronoun “iel” for its digital edition.

Hey, Brussels: Learn Hungarian!

Mátyás Kohán January 13, 2022

For the uninitiated, ‘gendering’ is a new phenomenon in Woke High German. It means attaching a horribly out-of-place asterisk and the feminine ending of a word to the masculine noun. Woke High German leads to orthographic monstrosities like Verkäufer*in, Bürgermeister*innen, or even Studierende*r.

Tag: language

Nationhood or Nihilism: Identity as Philosophical Combat

Yet the King Speaks: The Silent Descent of Language and Politics

The ‘Global Majority’: Racially Divisive Linguistic Nonsense

Dangerous Dictionaries

Culture and Politics on a ‘Fortress Island’

Reaction to Attempted Ban on Spanish from Catalan Classrooms

We Need to Keep Calling Ourselves Conservatives

French Language Losing Ground in Algeria

France’s War over Language: Neutral Pronoun ‘iel’ Spreading in Academe

Hey, Brussels: Learn Hungarian!

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