In Defense of Civilization

American Thinker ^ | 12 Feb, 2026 | Lars Møller

[MtnClimber]

With Britain on the brink of civil war, engulfed in growing anarchy, it is encouraging to hear three voices exposing the enemies of civilization and attempting to reverse the current decline by appealing to morality and reason.

In periods of civilizational stress, the defining intellectuals are rarely those who echo prevailing orthodoxies. Rather, they are individuals insisting on the legitimacy of first principles when those principles have become unfashionable or even dangerous to articulate. In contemporary Britain, Natasha Hausdorff, Douglas Murray, and Matt Goodwin exemplify this truth-seeking, altruistic calling. Each operates within a distinct professional domain—law, cultural criticism, and political science—yet all share a deeply anti-totalitarian idealism rooted in the defense of liberal democracy against ideological capture. Their engagement is not abstract but personal, involving reputational risk, social ostracism, and sustained public hostility. What unites them is not only dissent, but also a principled refusal to surrender truth, legality or democratic consent to coercive moral narratives.

Natasha Hausdorff’s contribution is distinguished by its juridical precision and moral clarity. As an international lawyer, she confronts one of the most ideologically distorted arenas of contemporary discourse: the legal treatment of Israel. Her merit lies not only in her mastery of international law but also in her insistence that law must remain tethered to evidence, context, and equal standards. In an environment where legal language is routinely weaponized to achieve political ends, her work exposes how selective interpretation and institutional bias corrode the credibility of the legal order itself.

Hausdorff’s anti-totalitarianism manifests in her resistance to what might be termed “normative inversion”: the process by which democratic self-defense is reframed as criminality, while terror, incitement, and authoritarian violence are excused as resistance. This inversion, which includes “victim blaming” at the national level, is not accidental but ideological, sustained by international bodies and NGOs

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: civilization; culture; societaldecline

[MtnClimber]

The left is fond of putting their opponents in jail.

[PGalt]

The Law - Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850)

[SaveFerris]

Where’s that 2-minute Amelia video?

[Thommas]

With Britain on the brink of civil war, we shall unfold 'Great Britain' to slip into the night with leftist pundits ecstatic for its demise.

The peasants of the former nation from England were neutered eons ago, with no weapons or governance to hold their defense of tyranny.

Close the drapes, Gracie.

[Lurker]

The Left is fond of killing them, too.

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[sauropod]

Sure are.

[SunkenCiv]

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[Albion Wilde]

In periods of civilizational stress, the defining intellectuals are rarely those who echo prevailing orthodoxies. Rather, they are... insisting on the legitimacy of first principles.... In contemporary Britain, Natasha Hausdorff, Douglas Murray, and Matt Goodwin exemplify this truth-seeking...

U.N. Can't Handle the Truth from Natasha Hausdorff Video 3 mins

Douglas Murray archives links to debate videos

Writings of Matthew Goodwin links to 20 articles

[MtnClimber]

Thanks for those links!