MarobaneThe CoronationMany people in the West have been praising China for their response to the latest pandemic. Even if they haven’t explicitly called for…Mar 19, 2020Mar 19, 2020
MarobaneThe Principle of the ThingGK Chesterton proposed a famous (at least within certain circles) thought experiment, know known as Chesterton’s Fence.Mar 9, 2020Mar 9, 2020
MarobaneMore Notes on Cultural RevivalIn my previous post, I mentioned the significance of the Japanese Kokugaku movement to decolonisation. But it is part of a broader picture…Mar 8, 2020Mar 8, 2020
MarobaneAll Fascism is Equal, but Some Fascisms are More Equal than OthersIn the clearing smoke of the ashes of the ancien regime, Mahmood Mamdani was invited to teach at the University of Cape Town, and to grow…Jul 28, 2019Jul 28, 2019
MarobaneWhy Ban Drugs? Part VI: The “English Model”Peter Hitchens was the first public intellectual I had ever encountered willing to defend the prohibition of drugs. That should have been…Jul 28, 2019Jul 28, 2019
MarobaneAntinomianism in the American Cities: a Soros BlunderAntinomianism is, in Christian theology, the rejection of God’s law. It is an accusation which has been levelled at the adherents of…Jul 25, 2019Jul 25, 2019
MarobaneWhy Ban Drugs? Part V: JapanJapan, much like Korea, is a nation with rather strict drug laws. Like the other three countries so far, which have all been wealthy…Jul 20, 2019Jul 20, 2019
MarobaneThe Endurance of the Imperial ProvincesWhile black elites are quite comfortable to be identified as merely black, and to quibble over what accent of English they speak with…Jul 11, 2019Jul 11, 2019
MarobaneRabindranath Tagore and the Luciferian RevolutionaryWhen I lived in Observatory, a trendy yet slightly grotty old Anglo suburb in Cape Town, there was a jazz club called Tagore’s. It was a…Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
MarobaneThe Handy Dystopias — Instrumental Uses of Speculative FictionSexy Slovenian saliva machine Slavoj Zizek recently had an original take on the dystopian fiction novel and Netflix series The Handmaid’s…Jun 23, 2019Jun 23, 2019