Tag: freedom
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Do You Trust Me?
“Do you trust me?” So began a former manager of mine during the ritualised humiliation we call a performance review. It was, to put it mildly, a discomfiting inquiry from a man whose own breaches of confidence had already rendered the term meaningless between us. But the discomfort runs deeper still, for it presupposes equality…
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How Europe is Betraying Its Own Values
A curious spectre is haunting Europe, though it is not socialism this time; it is the creeping, bureaucratic death of liberty. Across the continent, our political class is flirting with a proposal so flagrantly absurd and authoritarian that one almost wonders if they have read a history book: the mandatory scanning of every private message,…
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Why vocal anti-theism matters
People in the Netherlands or in many other places in Europe aren’t very much taken aback when you tell them you don’t believe in God or that you don’t have faith. It’s not all that uncommon here, fortunately. There are some that raise an eyebrow when you announce that you are an atheist. Somehow using…