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Articles by John Tangney
Political Homelessness
There has been much commentary recently about the gains made by right-wing parties across Europe. This can be taken as a hopeful sign by centrists because progressives and conservatives need each other as a curb on their worst excesses. However, in my own country of Ireland, the nationalist parties have all sold out to the global progressive agenda and we have no emerging centre-right or right-wing party with any presence in the national parliament.
Sports Stars, Citizenship, and Ireland’s Hate Speech Laws
The sprinter Rhasidat Adeleke is said to be on course to becoming Ireland’s greatest athlete. She was born here to Nigerian parents in 2002, and seems to be culturally at home in our post-sovereign moment. Yet by calling her Ireland’s greatest athlete her boosters draw attention to a world in which ethnic populations are diluted by people from everywhere, and where national essentialism makes no sense. Adeleke’s achievement is her own. Any wider credit goes to her genetic stock, which is African.
The Uncanny Campus
In a J. G. Ballard novel I read years ago called Running Wild, a tribe of kids in a gated community one day goes berserk and murders all the adults. This outbreak of violence seems unprovoked and inexplicable, but it has to do with what we now call safetyism, and with the postmodern transformation of everywhere into anywhere. Today’s global elites are cut off from their tribal roots such that when violence breaks out among them it seems to tear the fabric of reality.
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