Special to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

There was a time when I’d trouble you two or three times a week with my thoughts on this or that or the other. I’m now down to about once a month. I could blame advancing years for the slowing of output. But I doubt this. Part of the reason is that, while I used to be a unique voice, what I say is now a growing consensus on the political “right,” and is being echoed even in the legacy media. This being so, why bother continuing to say what everyone can now read in The Daily Mail?

Another reason is that I have never been so busy. Clever people are telling us that the Coronavirus has brought an end to globalisation. In my case, it’s opened a global market that may have existed beforehand, but did so without my knowing it. I’m teaching classes in Los Angeles and Hong Kong. In the next few days, I shall start teaching for institutions in South Korea and Mainland China. I will in due course write about this development. It is interesting, and what I have to say about it may be practically useful.

Until then, my Dear Readers, I hope you will understand if you are not uppermost in my thoughts.

But here are some things I wrote a while ago and that may now be more relevant than when I first sent them out. They are an attempt to explain the present insanity of every institution possessed by the left—ie, of just about everything in sight.

The first article is slightly diminished by the fact that my former MP Charlie Elphicke was found guilty of trying to touch a woman’s breast and of chasing her about his morning room while chanting “I’m a naughty Tory.” For these sexual assaults, he may be sent to prison. Or perhaps the article isn’t diminished at all by the outcome of his trial. Whatever the case, the main part of the article is an attempted examination of the current purity spiral. It sees “political correctness” not as a misplaced wish to be kind to people who historically have not been treated kindly—but as the contingent legitimising ideology of people who are innately disposed to making people dance as they desire. These people, puritans by nature, have been Calvinists, eugenicists and cultural leftists purely by convenience, and they may soon be something else—without ever giving up on their basic agenda of control.

The Puritan Hypothesis and Charlie Elphicke

The second article follows from the first and tries to explain in more detail the motivations of the present leftists.

Cultural Marxism: One of Those Legitimising Ideologies that Come and Go

I would normally send out the full text. However, I have recently tarted up my website with a new theme and various bells and whistles, and I wouldn’t wish anyone to miss out on admiring it.