Paul Gottfried: Understanding the Rich History of Paleoconservatism

“Why is it more important to believe in my right to own a gun if I say it is a ‘human right’ or something like that then if I say it is a right which was given to free Englishmen in the Middle Ages and which is valued as a legacy of freedom for the last 800 years or 1,000 years and is part of our tradition of freedom?”

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Black War Cinema and the Representation Paradox

(Deme Cisse in Battlefield V)

For all of their insistence on cultural revolution, progressives are not yet ready to kill the goose that lays the golden egg.”

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The Ever Tenuous Coalition That Is the Left

What makes this conflict noteworthy is that it reveals stress lines within the coalition of today’s Left, a coalition that often seems held together more by what it hates than by strong bonds of friendship.”

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Confessions of a Beautiful Soul

Despite the book’s homage to Friedrich Schiller via its title, we get nothing even remotely reminiscent of the profound intellectual mind meld between him and his great friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.”

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The Many Casualties of Hazing

They were given a choice to participate, and they ultimately decided it was worth risking their life, health, individuality, and future for a chance to be a part of a group of people who ultimately couldn’t care less about them.”

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The Stale Defeatism of the “Chomsky/Carlin Thesis”

While criticizing the United States, Chomsky, Senator Bernie Sanders, those at outlets such as The Grayzone, and some of my friends have defended the likes of Hugo Chávez and Fidel Castro.”

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Do They Really Believe in Eugenics?

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While denouncing the eugenics movement, one must also recognize that its repudiation by the progressive mainstream signals the rise of a self-centered ethos that is destructive in its own right.”

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Review: “The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On ‘Liberal’ as an Adjective” by Michael Walzer

(Jon R. Friedman)

Reading between the lines, we learn in fact that [Michael] Walzer believes that the Right, wrong in its continuing adherence to capitalism, but correct in its eschewal of intellectual fashion, currently has a monopoly on political wisdom.”

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Prelude to War: Lessons from the Second Spanish Republic

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The Second Spanish Republic has many parallels with modern American politics. Much like its counterparts in Spain, the American left of today is no less preoccupied with terraforming the cultural landscape.”

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Review: Spencer Klavan’s “How To Save The West”

Being a classicist and student of Greek philosophy, Klavan turns to his education to solve these philosophical dilemmas.”

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Boris Johnson’s Most Fundamental Failure: Immigration

(Neil Hall/EPA/Bloomberg)

“After all, one of the major reasons for the Conservatives’ 2019 election landslide victory was due to [Johnson’s] populist rhetoric regarding mass immigration, including the Conservatives’ promise that ‘overall numbers will come down.'”

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Who Will Fix a Broken Internet Landscape Before It’s Too Late?

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Despite the enormous improvements that technology has contributed to the human condition, if we do not choose to fix the way the Internet works, there remains the potential for a digital Pearl Harbor-type event.”

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Marxism Has Been No Deliverer from Ethnic Strife

(Polish Voluntary II Death Squad in Lviv 1920, Polish National Digital Archive)

Any utopian project that tolerates humanity’s diverse values and identities only to the extent that they help advance a narrowly defined vision of progress can only end in indiscriminate violence.”

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How a “National Divorce” Could Actually Unite Americans

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“Far from giving up on the American project, national divorce aims to renew and deepen our ability to live in harmony together.”

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Review: Carl Trueman’s “Strange New World”

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It bears repeating that this is a very good book. Trueman performs a thorough but concise excavation of the intellectual, philosophical, and metaphysical currents that he sees as moving below the crashing waves of our present cultural storm.”

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