Rhetoric

You can’t beat the left at its own game

Conservative attempts to reverse leftist victimology are doomed to fail

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Every argument for Israel

Answering the case against Israel point-by-point

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Free speech is a waste of breath

Free speech is not our cause, and it gets us nowhere anyway

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Of course the culture wars matter

It is people who trivialise them who are not taking politics seriously

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Dissent is not hatred

We must resist the idea that disagreement with modish beliefs is reducible to ill-feeling

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On the deceptive use of words

We must be very careful with redefinitions of commonly understood words

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Attack is the best form of defence

The right cannot always be fighting a rearguard action in the culture wars

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Cognition porn and discursive dehumanisation

Cultural and political discourse can follow the reductive yet seductive logic of pornography

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A moral panic about moral panics?

We are in danger of making unhinged generalisations about unhinged generalisers

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Who exactly is “far right”?

If it is a threat then it has to be defined

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