Here we see an idea essential to the New Right: the concept that civilization is merely a thin veneer, that within man lives a savage barely disguised and liable to be exposed at any given moment. For the evangelical left, violence is a personal or social aberration that needs to be explained. For the New Right, what needs explaining is how violenc

By the early 1990s, thinkers and politicians alike hailed “the End of History,” confidently asserting that all the big political and economic questions of the past had been settled and that the refurbished liberal package of democracy, human rights, free markets, and government welfare services remained the only game in town. This package seemed de

All agree that liberal ideals of freedom, equality, the rule of law, representative government and individual rights can only be defended with the help of social virtues such as fraternity, duty, loyalty, humility and honour.