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Statement: Disassociation from Arktos Media I have published two books with Arktos Media. Both of these books (The Ideology of Failure is a second edition of Travels in Cultural Nihilism) deal primarily with what I call the ‘ideology of cultural nihilism’ and have a particular focus on...

Reviewed by Andrew Moody. Published in Country Squire Magazine The Ideology of Failure When researching Stephen Pax Leonard, the author of the 2018 Conservative polemic The Ideology of Failure: How Europe Bought Into Ideas That Will Weaken and Divide It, I couldn’t find any reviews of...

Article published in Country Squire Magazine Time to cancel the ‘cancel culture’   The Government’s white paper on the freedom of speech crisis at British universities is to be welcomed as a step in the right direction. But, it does not go nearly far enough. Fining universities that...

Latest research addressing the question of the relationship between speech and experience has been published: Leonard, S. P. 2021. 'Experiencing Speech: Insights from indigenous ideologies of language'. International Journal of Language Studies 15 (1): 1-26.    ...

https://www.elsewhere-journal.com/blog/2020/10/29/hoyggja-harvesting-grass-in-the-faroe-islands   Hoyggja Harvesting grass in the Faroe Islands   July is the time of the hoyggja which refers to the cutting of the in-field (bøur) grass and harvesting it for the sheep’s winter feed. Families are outside; their cheery voices drift in the wind. Children’s laughter sweeps across the...

Published in the Country Squire Magazine Writing in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Oscar Wilde spoke of the ‘Oxford manner’. It was all fine and good to come down with a decent class of degree and take your Blue in water polo, but what...