Entries by Mark Gullick

Who are the Fabian Society?

An old English story, part-joke and part-apocrypha, tells of a retired American couple who take a vacation to England. Visiting the famous university city of Cambridge, they admire the ancient architecture before walking into the courtyard of one of the famous colleges. Admiring the perfect lawn, the pair spy a grounds-keeper and ask him how […]

Whatever Happened to Agnosticism?

The rise of secular society in the West seems undeniable, and although the 1960s may not be the decade which created secularism, it certainly fed it an accelerant. It was not just sexual and social liberation combining with new-found wealth which favored materialism over spiritualism, however, and even the Anglican Church was beginning to have […]

British Free Speech and J.S. Mill

Article 19 is an organization which monitors global free speech, and it issues an annual report which grades countries into five categories of freedom of expression: Open, Less Restricted, Restricted, Highly Restricted, and In Crisis. In its most recent report, the United Kingdom has been demoted from the highest category to the second for the […]

James Burnham’s “The Managerial Revolution”

We are aware that we live in a technocracy, but we don’t necessarily understand what that means. What is a technocrat, and how does he or, increasingly, she function? A key text to understanding this relatively new style of governance is James Burnham’s 1941 book, The Managerial Revolution. Writing during World War 2, Burnham finds […]

Trial by Jewry: Asa Winstanley on Weaponizing Anti-Semitism

Weaponizing Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn ASA WINSTANLEY OR Books, 2023 The Jew cries out in pain as he strikes you. Polish proverb Jeremy Corbyn was the leader of Britain’s Labour Party prior to the current Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, taking over in 2015 remaining leader until Labour’s comprehensive defeat in […]