Sublime

This is to my mind the essence of right-wing thought: a political ontology that through such subtle means allows violence to define the very parameters of social existence and common sense.

For this purpose we need procedures to ensure that controls over the tools of society are established and governed by political process rather than by decisions by experts.

Globally, today, the urge to moral idealism and a new ethos of responsibility in civil – that is non-violent – society may well represent the migration of the transcendent regarding which Weber’s colleague, Georg Simmel, was so persuaded. What Václav Havel dubbed the ‘politics of the anti-political’ has become an enormous though amorphous, weakly i

Individuals do not act within a vacuum. Their behavior varies with, and responds to, differences in political institutions, political cultures, leadership styles, and social norms.