Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Trump as the Last Warrior of the West

by Michael Kumpmann Arktos Journal Oct 30, 2024 Michael Kumpmann presents Esoteric Trumpism as Constantin von Hoffmeister’s exploration of Trump as a mythic, Archeofuturist figure navigating the West’s existential battle for revival, bridging esoteric symbolism and modern populism in an apocalyptic quest for renewal. Esoteric Trumpism. The title […]

Ghosts of Nebraska

by Rose Sybil Rose Sybil Oct 29, 2024 Rose Sybil depicts her experience of cultural death in her ancestral lands. Although I grew up in California, I was brought up by Nebraskans. My family has a long American lineage, with some ancestors dating back to early settlers on […]

Capitalism is Mapping a New Course

Troy Southgate Oct 29, 2024 ONE particular Marxist interpretation of the so-called ‘free market,’ and an observation that I happen to share, is that capitalists have been perpetuating a huge contradiction for quite some time. I am taking about ‘relations between things’ and ‘relations between people’. Commodities are […]

A Tsunami Approaches

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2024 Freedom cannot be won without sacrifice. If you set a high value on her, everything else must be valued at little. –  Seneca, Letters from a Stoic [circa 65 AD] HORNBERGER’S BLOG October 28, 2024 No One Is Coming to Get Us In a national-security […]

Race in America and the Dork Right

Against an Authoritarianism of Clerks Bronze Age Pervert Oct 27, 2024 1 The right’s thinking about race in America is mostly as pathological and boring as the left’s. Much constipated effort is devoted to refutations of “arguments” of the “woke,” or tedious genealogies tracing their origins back to […]

How the West Will Win (Again)

October 24 2024 How the West Will Win (Again) COMMENTARY By Andrew Olivastro People spouting Marxist ideas control too much of the means of production. Here’s how we fight that. More Few People Have Expended So Many Words to Say So Little COMMENTARY By David Harsanyi Vice President […]

The Archbishop Comes for Death

Sponsored by Reaktion Books Jack Hanson Last Rites Executions prevent any possibility that the condemned might someday reconcile with the world, and the Catechism of the Catholic Church maintains that they are “an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” So why do powerful American Catholics still […]

5 Myths About Hispanic Voters

Challenging conventional wisdom on America’s second largest voting bloc. José Alberto Niño Oct 24, 2024   Share With the 2024 presidential election around the corner, everyone and their dog is speculating about the path to victories for each candidate for the presidential contest. Things have gotten interesting with […]

What Is Usha Vance Thinking?

October 24, 2024 Since Usha Vance arrived on the national stage this summer, when her husband, J.D., was named to the Republican ticket, she’s been the target of a particular liberal disorder: projecting tangled allegiances and quiet resistance onto the non-elected women in Trump’s orbit. There is some […]

US Prisons Still a Disaster Zone

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2024 What … can the government do to help the poor? The only answer is the libertarian answer: Get out of the way. –  Murray N. Rothbard HORNBERGER’S BLOG October 22, 2024 Celebrating Cuba’s Power Outage U.S. interventionists are undoubtedly uncorking their champagne bottles and […]

After Dobbs

Sponsored by The University of North Carolina Press In the Review’s Election Issue, Christine Henneberg writes about the effects that the 2022 Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has already had on women and abortion providers in the United States: Under the current patchwork of state laws […]

Political Rituals Entrench the Managerial State – Part 2: The Messiah versus the Scapegoat; MAGA as a media grift; The Swamp will never be drained by politics; DNC Oligarchy’s ‘Democratic’ Coronation

Sean Jobst Aug 25, 2024 by Sean Jobst 25 August 2024   In Part 1, I argued that Biden’s sidelining after the Presidential debate is a ritual where an enfeebled king is humiliated and his successor anointed by the priestly class. My analysis is founded on the truth that symbols and […]

Political Rituals Entrench the Managerial State – Part 1: Biden’s Humiliation Ritual, Coup-Mala Harris Anointed, Rise of the Managerial Classes, TDS Dialectic, and Trump as America’s Shadow

Sean Jobst Jul 31, 2024 By Sean Jobst 31 July 2024   I recommend the work of political cartoonist George Alexopoulos   Foreword to “Brave New World”, 2nd ed., 1947   Three events in this past month reveals the persona of a Managerial class that will remain entrenched […]

Christopher Rufo’s Big Campaign

October 18, 2024 The conservative movement has always had its message men, storytellers, and propagandists — Roger Ailes, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Steve Bannon — who could spin narratives that, at their most potent, became indistinguishable from reality in the minds of voters. But there has never been […]