Category: Left and Right

Is Defunding the Police a “Luxury Belief”?Analyzing White vs. Nonwhite Democrats’ Attitudes on Depolicing

Zach GoldbergSeptember 8, 2022 Policing & Public SafetyAll Executive Summary After the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, a surprising number of Democrats embraced calls to “defund” the police. According to data from the 2020 Cooperative Election Survey, 35.4% of Democrats expressed support for reducing spending on […]

Why Progressives Undermine Civilization

Shellenberger seems to be getting a bit neoconnish. Next up: “Michael Shellenberger on the visionary genius of Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol.” From electricity and psychiatry to criminal justice and meritocracy, center-Left political leaders are dismantling the institutions our forefathers created. Why is that? Michael Shellenberger German Economy […]

Matthew Rose On The Radical Right

His new book delves into the philosophers behind the alt-right’s assault on liberalism and Christianity. Andrew Sullivan LISTEN HERE Matthew Rose is a scholar of religion. He’s currently Senior Fellow and Director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life — a project of the Morningside […]

The Racism in Textbooks

New York Review of Books Eric Foner The Complicity of the Textbooks In Teaching White Supremacy, Donald Yacovone traces how the writing of American history, from Reconstruction on, has falsified and illuminated our racial past. Dan Chiasson Rococo Risks With Venice, her latest collection of poems, Ange Mlinko offers an […]

Elite Power and the Politics of Division: Neema Parvini’s “The Populist Delusion”

Neema Parvini. The Populist Delusion. Perth, Australia: Imperium Press, 2022. What entails the backlash against populist politics, a political ideology that once held respectable admiration in the institutions of culture? Further, what about the pervasive, both implicit and explicit, argument about white sin and white fragility, which construes […]

Fear of Fascism

By Tom Nichols, The Atlantic I’ve long resisted using the word fascism to describe Donald Trump and his Republican followers, but we have to overcome our reluctance to use strong language and admit that America is now beset by a dangerous antidemocratic movement masquerading as a party. First, […]

Twelve Points of Unity for Patriotic Socialists (In North America)

Patriotic Socialism 1. Community Self-Policing, Ethnic Autonomy, Every ethnic and/or cultural group shall be protected and preserved by the state, endowed with the right to self-government for purposes of community-policing, preservation and promotion of tradition/heritage, and organization and promotion of community-based economy. 2. Traditionalism, The state shall protect […]

Manifesto of the New Resistance

This is Manifesto of the Nova Resistência. Kosmic Principles of the New Resistance: Brazil needs a new breath, a new sigh: a new splash of creative joviality and a new revolutionary rage! The political forms of the past, from right to left, from chauvinist nationalism to bourgeois nationalism, […]

Harvey Mansfield Counts His Blessings

There is some revealing information in this video from May of this year. Former Reaganite stooge and neocon adjacent Peter Robinson interviews Straussian godfather Harvey Mansfield, for whom many leading neocons and their associates were proteges. Robinson specifically floats Nikki Haley and Tom Cotton as potential presidential candidates. […]

The Left and Right in Historical Context

Murray Rothbard’s enormously important essay from 1965 pointed out the fallacies of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Read it here. Rothbard’s anarcho-capitalism was essentially a restatement of the panarchist philosophy of Gustave Molinari and Paul Emile de Puydt, a position also embraced by the classical anarchist […]

It’s time for Tory socialism

By Tim Stanley, The Spectator The Conservative leadership contest has descended into a low-tax auction, which is not a good thing. The implication is that the Conservatives think government should be minuscule at the very moment when private enterprise is letting us down – the energy companies are […]

Why Marxism is Anti-Woke

There seems to be a lot of concusion both on the American right and left about the relationship between Marxism and wokeness. Right-wingers think Wokeness is Marxist, and so do American leftists. The reality is that Marxism and wokeneness and Marxism are completely incompatible.

‘Post-Liberals’ Look the Other Way Rather Than Address Antiwhite Racism

By Paul Gottfried, Chronicles Self-described Catholic “post-liberal” Patrick Deneen recently criticized the British neoconservative Douglas Murray for his focus on the antiwhite racism of the woke left, saying that the right should focus on populist economic issues instead. This reveals a grave problem among some self-identifying American conservatives: […]

The Anarcho-Fascist Manifesto

By Zero Schizo Medium By the CNT/S-1611 from Mexico; Translated by Velkan Corvinus CNT or the National Tempestist Coordination ¡PRESENT! Today, April 20, 2021, we decreed the birth of the NTC, this being our first day of public struggle for the Tempestist Revolution: calling for the organization of […]