In the rush to understand the overwhelming No vote in the recent referendums, there has been a glaring oversight of key factors, most notably the inherent Catholic conservatism of the current liberal epoch. In his influential post-modernist text, Hopelessly Pretentious, US academic Trevor Trendy contends that modern progressive politics is mired in psychosomatic didacticism. Certainly,… Read more »
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