The right has repeatedly acted as a “hinge of history,” one political scientist says. By Uri Friedman Marko Djurica / Reuters June 14, 2017 Survey the conservative parties of the Western world these days, and you’ll come away confused. Are they on the rise or under siege? In […]
Briahna Joy Gray and Robby Soave discuss an op-ed that denounced certain “left-wing figures” for being critical of the left.
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Paul Johnson’s ‘Intellectuals’ chronicled some of history’s greatest monsters Ed West 24 hr ago The great journalist, author and historian Paul Johnson has died, aged 94. Editor of the New Statesman in the late 1960s, Johnson was one of the most famous examples of British journalists who moved […]
By Keith Preston January 14, 2023 In the 1960s, the two largest factions in US politics were the Rockefeller Republicans and the New Deal Democrats. The CIA then created the New Right through their stooge William F. Buckley and the New Left through their stooge Irving Kristol. Both […]
And what the woke actually get right. Andrew Sullivan 1 hr ago Young people listen during the Dem event “Come Together and Fight Back” in Miami in 2017. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) It’s dawning on many on the political center and right that the current younger generation in America […]
The American Conservative Dear Reader,Status is more than simple wages for the American worker, says Joshua Preiss. Preiss, a professor of philosophy at Minnesota State University, argues that the bipartisan National Development Strategy and Coordination Act of 2022 sponsored by Sen. Marco Rubio and Rep. Ro Khanna supports the […]
December 8, 2022 Photo: A. Davey / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Fascism Comes to America: A Century of Obsession in Politics and Culture By Bruce Kuklick University of Chicago Press, 264 pages, $35 Speaking to a group of donors in Rockville, Md., in August, President Biden declared that support […]
Far from being a phantom in the imaginations of a handful of writers and scholars, conservative socialism is a real phenomenon. Seamus Flaherty 27 Dec 2022 · 16 min read I. Blue Labour. Red Tory. Tory socialism. Tory anarchism. Tory communism. There is no shortage of apparent oxymorons […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss new data showing that millennials are not following the typical trend of shifting to the right as they get older.
Krystal Kyle & Friends 33 min ago Welcome to the longest contest for Speaker of the House in 164 years. (What the hell was going on in 1859?) If you’re following the latest drama in Congress, you know that former Minority Leader of the House, California Republican Kevin […]
An examination of British culture, this remarkable account delves into George Orwell’s idea of a Tory Anarchist—someone who is concurrently a radical and a traditionalist. Filled with humorous extracts and quotes, this record explores—from Jonathan Swift to contemporary personalities—the definition of Orwell’s term, which is filled with contradictions: […]
I don’t think generations get more conservative as they age, I believe they retain their opinions. It’s SOCIETY that’s progressing into areas where they don’t have experience or knowledge base which causes them to stultify. Note that the millennials (who had the internet their entire lives) are the […]
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Rolo Slavskiy Dec 17, 2022 Populism, distilled to its most essential, is a pure and ideology-free method of redress for the peasants of any given country. What is Nationalism then? Well, I would argue that it is simply outwardly-facing Populism. If the problems that a nation faces are […]
The American Conservatism Dear Reader,Each new year is much like the year before. And each new year holds surprises we could never have anticipated. Our resolutions do not change very greatly, year to year. We hope for more happiness than the year prior, and consider what actions or […]
By Florindo Volpacchio Telos If a journal manages to survive for 100 issues, it is reasonable to assume that the editorial board has managed to reach some sort of internal consensus and can finally rest on its laurels. Such is not the case with Telos. . . . After all these […]
Professor of economics at The New School For Social Research Clara Mattei discusses her new book, “The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism.”
By SPUTNIK December 24, 2022 Soviet Union Credit: Flickr/ Серёжа Русский Kirill Krasilnikov – The Left in Europe and the United States has undergone major changes over 100 years after the founding of the Soviet Union, moving away from the early 20th-century class-based politics and turning into the […]
This article is 18 months old, but it remains one of the best analyses I’ve seen to date of how most of the Western Left was completely coopted by neocons, neoliberalism, and totalitarian humanism. What seems to have happened was the simultaneously temporal convergence of “woke” and Trumpism, […]
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The idea that right-wing extremists are inherently dangerous or violent has a long history in Britain. It is a myth which is still flourishing.
MOST READ The Scorched-Earth Legal Strategy Corporations Are Using to Silence Their Critics Sasha Chavkin Energy and extractive industry giants are targeting environmentalists with racketeering charges. READ MORE → Biden Moves Ahead on Trump Plan to Build Israel Embassy on Stolen Palestinian Land Alice Speri Objections from […]
December 14, 2022By Paul Gottfried A group of African-American children gather around a sign and booth to register voters. Early 1960s. (Kheel Center, Cornell University / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) In what seemed a strange gesture from the Fox News tough guy, Dan Bongino last week […]
Those living on the fringe of the left and the right share more in common than you might think. By Kathleen Belew The Atlantic; Camerique / Getty; Keystone-France / Gamma-Keystone / Getty December 14, 2022, 5 AM ET This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, […]
The Signal How prominent is “Christian nationalism” becoming in the U.S.? Curtis Chang on the challenges for American democracy, and American Christians, from “the secular god of politics.” Thomas Vitali “We need to be the party of nationalism,” the U.S. Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene told an interviewer […]
A new book shows the extent to which MI5 and Special Branch gathered information on thousands of individuals who never remotely posed a threat to Britain’s security. In so doing, they were distracted from addressing the real threats to the public. RICHARD NORTON-TAYLOR 6 December 2022 Swallows and […]
One tweet says it all. By Charlie Warzel The Atlantic Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty December 11, 2022, 6:03 PM ET If there’s one tweet that will tell you everything you need to know about Elon Musk, it’s this one from early this morning: In five words, Musk manages […]
MOST READ The Internet’s New Favorite AI Proposes Torturing Iranians and Surveilling Mosques Sam Biddle ChatGPT, the latest novelty from OpenAI, replicates the ugliest war on terror-style racism. READ MORE → Donald Trump Is Out of Power — and Out of Luck James Risen The ex-president is […]
The American Conservative Dear Reader,Brian Kaller is a writer from Ferguson, Missouri. But for the last two decades he has lived in rural Ireland. He returned home this Fall for a six week visit, and in a poignant essay reflects on the way things have changed, in Ferguson […]
MOST READ Addressing Climate Change Will Not “Save the Planet” Christopher Ketcham The dismal reality is that green energy will save not the complex web of life on Earth but the particular way of life of one domineering species. READ MORE → CIA Venture Capital Arm Partners […]
The Extremism Roundup Promoting Civil Discourse and Marginalizing the Extremes A weekly compilation of the most important developments in the struggle against radical ideologies Islamist Extremism Aws Mohammed Naser, 34 – Michigan Department of Corrections Facebook page Michigan Man Charged With Supporting ISIS Aws Mohammed Naser, formerly of Westland, […]
Richard T. Marcy and Valerie J. D’Erman, Telos Introduction In recent years, there has been something of an explosion of news stories about various college and university campuses across North America experiencing heightened levels of political advocacy and political unrest. Visible examples include the “canceling” of invited speakers […]
By Bradley J. Birzer|November 21st, 2022|Categories: American Republic, Bradley J. Birzer, Conservatism, Senior Contributors Conservatism since Edmund Burke has been about the cultivation and protection of intermediary institutions, of local communities, and of families. Rarely, if ever, does the nation-state, known as The United States of America, serve […]
For thousands of fans, he made philosophy thrillingly relevant. Yet there is a deep unsavoury undercurrent to his worldview/ Colin Wilson on Hampstead Heath in 1956. Photo by Mark Kauffman/The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock Jules Evans is an honorary research fellow at the Centre for the History of the […]
On this week’s #SWYSI, Peter Whittle is joined by Paul Embery, a firefighter, trade union activist, pro-Brexit campaigner. columnist and ‘Blue Labour’ thinker from Dagengham. Paul’s new book “Despised: Why The Modern Left Loathes the Working Class” may be ordered from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Despised-Mod… Twitter: @PaulEmbery
By Juan Villa The words fascism, communism, socialism, and anarchism often times have been loaded words in terms of how everyday Americans have been schooled to interpret them. Therefore, the objective was to revisit these words through the interpretations of Intellectual Marxists themselves in order to understand these […]
“There are new victims all the time. Immigration is not questioned, and neither is the justice system.” November 17, 2022 editor: REMIX NEWS author: Olivier Bault Renowned French author Laurent Obertone presents a bleak future of a France in conflict in his books, but he says that such […]
MOST READ The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes Fahim Abed Former Zero Unit members are facing a reversal of fortune that is humiliating, infuriating, and utterly intractable. READ MORE → The Real Story of the Making of Nancy […]
José Luis Ledesma Eduardo Romanos ‘[May Day is celebrated] year after year, without interruption’, wrote the Spanish philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (1907), ‘and this celebration seems to assume a ritual, a liturgical character. The value of these rituals is enormous, as long as their spirit is faithfully remembered’ […]
The American Conservative As members of The American Conservative know and more periodic readers have probably gathered, the magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Last night our annual gala looked back at two decades of being a voice of rightwing dissent, and celebrated the fact that we […]
By Alan Bickley If I call them worthless, I am not doing complete justice to the Conservatives. They crept back to office in 2010 in a cloud of promises that they repeated and elaborated at the three following elections. In office, their sole positive achievement has been personal […]
Many of the attendees made the Nazi salute popularized by Adolf Hitler, while others had tattoos of the German dictator, according to a press report. EG by Emily Green VICE November 9, 2022, 10:12am A grab of the video taken by newspaper El Pais from the clandestine neo-Nazi […]
Peter R. Quiñones “Pete, you’re just upset because your favorite statist lost, and WE were responsible!” Please, you didn’t do anything except make some posts on social media. But let’s take this statement in another direction. Libertarians, the people who are celebrating spoiling elections this week, pride themselves […]
The Extremism Roundup Promoting Civil Discourse and Marginalizing the Extremes A weekly compilation of the most important developments in the struggle against radical ideologies Islamist Extremism Allison Fluke-Ekren – Alexandria’s Sheriff’s Office via Washington Post screenshot American Woman Sentenced to 20 Years for Leading All-Female ISIS Battalion Allison […]
A brief explanation Archer Andrewes ‘Patriotic Socialism’ is honestly a very poor descriptor of my worldview. I am neither patriotic (nationalist) nor am I a socialist (Marxist) The nation is a bourgeois edifice, the opposite of an organic state based upon a higher (spiritual) principal, the nation is […]
by Salofaista and Zoltanous Introduction Fringe movements, whether in politics or religion, tend to attract fringe individuals. George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party, once made the observation that: “Creativity is fanaticism. Every creative genius has had to be a fanatic. Many of them have been […]
Peter R. Quiñones I’m sitting here thinking about Election Days past when I considered myself a “good libertarian.” For many libertarian/anarchist/agorists Election Day is a holiday on which they virtue signal via social media about how intelligent they are (sanctimonious is a better term). “Why would anyone be […]
This is an interesting debate between a democratic socialist from The Jacobin and a neo-reactionary. I don’t share either guy’s philosophy but it is an interesting discussion. Attendees at the recent Unregistered Weekend in Chicago witnessed an unprecedented showdown between the leading opponent of democracy and its most […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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