Month: April 2015

Debunking Iran’s “March of Conquest”

By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Paul Pillar puts the Iran hawks’ alarmist claims about an Iranian “march of conquest” in perspective: The main fact on this subject is that Iran hasn’t been doing anything close to the country-gobbling, capital-controlling, instability-creating stuff in the Middle East that it […]

Rand Paul Wants It Both Ways

Do not stand with Rand. “Whereas Paul told me back in 2013 that he hoped to make “audit the Pentagon” as popular a rallying cry as his father Ron Paul did “audit the Fed,” he’s now proposing $190 billion in spending increases for defense over two years, but claims fiscal conservative […]

Colliding Leftist Narratives

Carl Schmitt once referred to the original Nazi movement in Germany as “organized mass insanity.” Nowadays, what passes for the “radical left” has regrettably fallen into such a state. By Azn Rand The Right Stuff What happens when contradictory leftist narratives collide? We get a battle between a […]

Book Review: Albion Awake

Sean Gabb reviews Wayne John Sturgeon’s Albion Awake Mystical Anarchism and the National Quest for an Alternative Britain. “The current British State has just as much authority as it is able to compel. It is beyond reforming. All the other European states and the American system are entering […]

How the GOP Became the Israel Party

” Benjamin Netanyahu has become the symbolic leader of the GOP, and even he is probably not as aggressive as most in the party would like him to be.” By Scott McConnell The American Conservative When the unexpectedly detailed P5+1 framework agreement with Iran was announced last Thursday, […]

Rand Paul? In a word…No

Given that Rand Paul has now formally announced his candidacy for the Presidency, a number of people have asked for my thoughts on the subject. Here they are. I’m not a Rand Paul supporter. Some libertarian-types think he’s merely a professional politician trying to capitalize on his father’s […]

Why Totalitarian Humanism is Dangerous

The problem is that so-called “progressives’ nowadays don’t really seem to value any political ideas other than supposed “equality” for the officially oppressed. Virtually any other kind of rights or liberties they view as irrelevant or insignificant if they get in the way of “equality.” In the name […]

Robert Stark interviews Ogi Ogas

Robert Stark interviews Ogi Ogas Ogi Ogas  received his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Boston University, where he designed mathematical models of learning, memory, and vision. He is co-author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts . He was a Department of Homeland Security Fellow and conducted biodefense research at MIT Lincoln […]

Neo-Reaction as a “Limit-Experience”

By Keith Preston  Alternative Right The New Reaction by Rachel Haywire Arktos Media, 66 pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Keith Preston Rachel Haywire’s The New Reaction is a collection of fifteen relatively short writings offering amusingly iconoclastic bits of cultural criticism from the perspective […]

Sore Winners

By Matt Welch Reason Someone please tell me if my progression here is inaccurate in any way: 1) Family owners of small-town Indiana pizzeria spend zero time or energy commenting on gay issues. 2) TV reporter from South Bend walks inside the pizzeria to ask the owners what […]

How RFRA Became Controversial

It’s interesting how both Left and Right normally engage in massive special pleading on behalf of their own favorite issues and pet causes. I remember when the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was being considered in the early 90s, sectors of the religious right were attacking it on the […]