Thomas William Dowling

I make the case for the presence of the "aristocratic spirit" in modern football, an anti-modern concept cham…

No religious denomination is less qualified to address the famous “problem of evil” than the Protestant one.

Today's Hegelians turn hostile whenever they are asked to address the "woke question". It's time to ask serio…

If a person is made to feel constantly on trial, this will inevitably alter the perception they have of thems…

One can be forgiven for taking Sir Keir's words at face value. But my train journey to York suggests that the…

My Hegelian revision of "reification" will spoil the mood at conferences. But I don't care...

The following notes were produced as part of my preparation for a "Power and Consent" seminar, taken at the U…

The Great Pretenders understand the mass consumer’s addiction to the inauthentic better than anybody else. On…

The following notes were taken from Book III, which offers a concise summary of Tocqueville's alternative int…

The following is a collection of notes I took while reading through the very text that gave the Reformation i…

"Pride" is not "some people are gay, get over it" anymore.

The recent online spat between Peter Hitchens and our own Carl Benjamin should mark the beginning of a new ph…

Britain's natural resistance to continental rule was a seismic contributing factor behind the Brexit vote. Bu…

It is difficult to determine whether sociologists should diagnose ‘lad culture’ as progressive or reactionary…

If there is cross-party support for any assessment of the United Kingdom, it is the contention that a small m…

When one hears the word “zombies,” popular culture compels us to visualise at least one of two things: a hoar…

'Involuntary celibate' men inherit the burden of being a minority group that it's 'okay' to bully. However, i…

The following notes were taken in 2018, when I was studying the Journal of Marxist Analysis. Having aged rela…

Like it or not: it is only through the establishment of new boundaries that the Russo-Ukraine war can end and…

The Western alliance is so high from the fumes of its own "Putin must fail" absolutism that it is has become …

In "hauntology", the present is caught up lamenting cancelled visions of promised futures. In this highly exp…

The most inconvenient fact for academics is that they are among the most liable to the groupthink phenomenon …

When the malicious, career race-baiters make their move, the All England Club should not answer to them.

Very recently, the Washington Post publicised a statistic originally produced by the University of Chicago’s …