G.K. Chesterton famously proclaimed, “When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.” More recently, Jordan Peterson suggested, “If people think they are atheistic, it means they are unconscious of their Gods.” Tara Isabella Burton, writing in The American Interest, examines the spiritual and metaphysical beliefs of secular progressives. God may be dead for many of our social justice warriors, but psychics and astrologers, witches and demons, stars and signs and the casting of spells and hexes, are experiencing a renaissance.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
