Mervyn Bendle
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Only where Western tradition and scholarship are still valued can the process of reclaiming humanism and the humanities begin
Feb 03 2026
18 mins
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The philospher began with the conviction 'the only human activity that seems to have any importance' is the great cosmic 'why?'
Sep 20 2024
24 mins
From a perspective of some eighty years it is possible to misunderstand or underestimate the intensity of the fears—but also the hopes and aspirations—of the British people as they faced up to another colossal existential challenge, less than a full generation after what, it was now suddenly clear, had only been the first world war
Sep 10 2024
11 mins
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Australia has not yet gone very far down the path followed by Britain and France, but we are heading in that direction. To understand how Australia could slide into a theocratic-socialist dystopia, people need to recognize only one thing: key élites of Western countries would sell them out in a heartbeat
Aug 14 2024
11 mins
There is a considerable body of scholarship and commentary illuminating the dire future into which Western societies are allowing themselves to descend. Tragically, there seems to be little political will or capacity to confront this challenge, in itself a marker of the extent of the decline
Jul 28 2024
28 mins
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The paradox of hope and fear, allegiance and alienation, which tore through the Sixties has never been resolved and the tension remains, fundamentally shaping contemporary politics and culture, as we see around us every day
Jul 20 2024
26 mins
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The Jewish people are facing the greatest threat to their existence since the catastrophic Roman siege of Jerusalem nearly two millennia ago. Consequently, it is well worth recalling that epoch-defining tragedy in all its world-historical significance
Jul 10 2024
16 mins
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What he presents as a philosophical argument is actually just the expression of Heidegger’s Völkisch longings -- a nostalgic yearning for a pre-industrial, pre-urban, pre-democratic, and specifically German pastoralism, coupled with a deeply reactionary hatred of every aspect of modernity, personified above all by 'the Jews'
Jun 11 2024
19 mins
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The Black Notebooks confirm that Heidegger supported National Socialism not […]
May 28 2024
19 mins
