Tom G. Palmer set the communitarian crowd straight. Kudos to Kyle Kidwell for bringing this to my attention. ____________ It has recently been asserted that libertarians, or classical liberals, actually think that “individual agents are fully formed and their value preferences are in place prior to and outside […]
rawstory.com Agence France-Presse A 2,000-strong Pakistani mob snatched a mentally unstable man from a police station, beat him to death and torched his body after he allegedly burned pages from a Koran, police said Thursday. The mob ransacked the police station in a village on the outskirts of […]
ac2012.com Infowars.com has recently revived the “V for Victory” campaign as a way to “invoke the spirit of the French who were occupied by the Nazis in World War Two.” What does this have to do with Aleister Crowley 2012? While he certainly wasn’t the first person to […]
From TakiMag: Jim Goad on the Trans-Saharan slave trade. ___________ While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign’s head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, palefaces are […]
By Dan Gilgoff CNN.com Religion Editor (CNN) – It’s safe to say the first European arrivals to New England wouldn’t recognize today’s debate over whether America is exceptional. Though the United States wouldn’t be born for another century and a half, the Puritans arriving in the early 1600s on […]
by Keith Preston
The fame of Aleister Crowley is principally derived from his reputation as a notorious occultist. It is this reputation that has made his name legendary in numerous counter-cultural and youth culture circles, ranging from contemporary enthusiasts for witchcraft of varying sorts to purveyors of certain shades of heavy metal music. Yet for all his status…
rt.com AFP Photo/Getty Images Swinging sex parties are slowing finding a place among Saudi Arabia`s foreign residents and elite. One foreign couple gave a sneak peak into their private lives that could cost them their freedom or more in the conservative Islamic kingdom. The couple, living in the […]
From The Guardian. Personally, I like this ruling. ______________ by Kate Connolly Jewish and Muslim leaders were united on Wednesday in their condemnation of a German court’s decision to in effect outlaw the circumcision of boys after a judge deemed that the religious practice amounted to bodily harm. […]
By Pat Buchanan Sixteen months after the United States abandoned its loyal satrap of 30 years, President Hosni Mubarak, to champion democracy in Egypt, the returns are in. Mohammed Morsi, candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, is president of Egypt, while the military has dissolved the elected parliament that […]
From Russia Today A German court has ruled that parents can’t have their sons circumcised on religious grounds in a move which has angered Muslim and Jewish groups in the country. The court in Cologne decided that a legal guardian’s authority over a child does not allow them […]
Benjamin Marks takes Mencken-misconceptions (and libertarian uplift) to task… Read more about “Mencken’s Conservatism” here. _________ Mencken believed that most of the debates about politics, religion, science, philosophy, aesthetics and other issues rests on false premises that make all their squabbles merely petty infighting. Here is a brief […]
From Boston.com. _______ By Claude Fischer Americans aren’t the rugged individuals we think we are. Americans like to see themselves as rugged individualists, a nation defined by the idea that people should set their own course through life. Think of Clint Eastwood rendering justice, rule-bound superiors be damned. […]
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By Richard Spencer The cloyingly named “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act” (HR3541) failed in the House on Thursday, despite gaining overwhelming Republican support. If passed, the bill would have outlawed racial and sexual discrimination in abortion, jailing any doctor who helped a woman end a pregnancy […]
by R.J. Jacob
This book could not have come at a better time. Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men is a spear through the side of the one world therapeutic tribe. Donovan incorporates his theory of masculinity into a Nietzschean critique of modernity that unveils human nature and screams WAR! in the face of feminists and professional utopians.
Donovan explores the origins of masculinity by looking at the human EEA. Different species must evolve different mechanisms in response to the imposed conditions. Donovan describes human males as a party gang species organized into male dominated gangs whose members compete and cooperate for status, women, and the greater good of the gang. The earliest male humans, comprising the genus…
Salon reports on the latest Stateside sin tax. ________________ By Tracy Clark-Flory It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society’s ills. Now they’re actually being charged for it. In recent years, measures have been introduced in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and, most recently, California […]
From the Guardian. Such views always remind me of this cartoon… I’m sure the Jacobin paternalists on the Continent would love to tell Nadiya how “oppressed” she is… _______________ by Nadiya Takolia When you think of the hijab, you probably don’t think “political”. Or “independent”. Or “empowered”. Feminist? […]
This amuses me on many a level. From the Huffington Post… _____________ Over five centuries after the famed explorer’s death, historians are taking a fresh look at what motivated Christopher Columbus to make his voyage across the Atlantic — and how his faith may have played into those […]
Attack the System Interview with R.J. Jacob May 3, 2012Keith Preston interviews R.J. Jacob. Topics include: R.J.’s early experiences as a left-anarchist activist and his disappointment with the Left; The importance of the thought of Max Stirner and the need to develop an anarchism without slave morality; The […]
Article by Thomas N. Naylor. When I first read Albert Camus’s The Stranger as a college student in 1957, it went right over my head. I was clueless as to what this book was about. When I re-visited it twenty-five years later, I was so taken by Camus that I […]
Article by Jim Goad. “For me, politics isn’t so much about what sort of society I want to live in as much as what sort of people I want to avoid. I consider myself a misanthropic individualist.” —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Rick Santorum has been the Republican primary season’s Surprise Moral […]
Article by Abdal-Hakim Murad. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Must one be liberal to belong to the West? For all the polite multiculturalist denials, this question is being put to us more and more insistently. The European Union, as it struggles to articulate a common cultural as well as economic vision, regularly […]
Keith Preston writes the blog Attack the System, which attempts to tie together both left and right anarchism in a Pan-secessionism against the empire. While I come from a radically different perspective than Keith, I find his critique of the way many left anarchists are militant shock […]
Noam takes on the atheist fundamentalists. As an atheist myself, I’ve found these “new atheist” writers to be an embarrassment. First, none of the prominent ones are genuine religious scholars, historians of religion, or cultural anthropologists who can, for instance, examine the cultural, historical, literary, or linguistic contexts […]
Article by Jared Taylor. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Most Americans have a vague sense that the First Amendment means we can gather just about anywhere and say just about anything so long as we don’t break the law. But that’s not how it works. It is increasingly common for fanatics to shut down […]
by P. R. Stephensen (The London Aphrodite, no. 6, July 1929, pp. 421–432.) (Stephenson regarded himself as a Nietzschean-Bakuninite. Hat tip to MP.) Only one man has lived dangerously—Michael Bakunin. While Nietzsche postulated the Fore-runner, here was a fore-runner in deed. “Everything about him was colossal,” says Richard Wagner […]
From Terre and Peuple. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Martin Luther Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the […]
Article by Andy Nowicki. Glad to see I’m not the only one who always thought Whitney’s music was torturously unlistenable. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- After several painful years of committing what may be called slow-motion suicide, pop singer Whitney Houston has perished at the age of 48, another wretchedly pitiful casualty of […]
Hat tip to MRDA. Dain is an old acquaintance of mine from the U.S. libertarian milieu. “I’m personally interested in the tradition of libertine individualist elitism. The nether region where John Henry Mackay, Max Stirner and HL Mencken meet. These people don’t truck much with liberal pieties and […]
Article by Chris Hedges. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. […]
In the spirit of Origen. Article by Greg Wilson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— An Italian man tore both of his eyes out in the middle of the priest’s homily at a church near Pisa, according to reports. Fellow parishioners watched in horror as Aldo Bianchini, 46, used his bare hands to […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Samir Khan was proud to be a traitor. In a way, he was among the most dangerous of al Qaeda terrorists. By turning his back on the country he grew up in, he gained credibility and coupled that with his intimate knowledge of Western culture […]
Article by Matthew Lyons. This is a very good analysis of all the subtle ideological variations of the Right with regards their attitudes towards Islam. ——————————————————————————————- Anders Behring Breivik has been called a neonazi and a Christian fundamentalist. Both of these labels are misleading, although both contain elements […]
Article by Jim Goad. —————————————————————————————————————————————- When I first read Ted Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and its Future, better known as The Unabomber Manifesto, I was impressed with how logically dispassionate it was, especially its devastating dissection of leftist masochism and hostility. Each paragraph—sequentially numbered as if they were biblical […]
This is the final in a series of essays in response to Matthew Lyons’ critique “Rising Above the Herd: Keith Preston’s Authoritarian Anti-Statism.” And here is the transcript of a recent lecture by Lyons where yours truly gets a couple of mentions. Part One may be viewed here. […]
Article by Michael Kleen. I’ve posted this here before but it’s worth posting again. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Out of all modern philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the most unique critics of the modern State, yet his views on the subject have been largely overshadowed by his more famous […]
From MRDA’s Inferno. —————————————————————————————————— Now, I don’t deny that certain faces ‘n’ figures elicit more—sometimes many more—raised cocks and/or moistened cunts than others; neither will I contest that some folks inspire forlorn gazes and filthy fantasies wherever on the globe they go. However such popularity, even on a […]
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Article by Gregory Pauland and Phil Zuckerman. As an atheist myself, I could not care less about “bigotry” against atheists. The last thing I would want to see is atheists jumping on the “poor us, we’re so oppressed” victimology bandwagon. Hence, my general dislike of the “new atheist” […]
Article by MRDA. _______________________________________ For all the time Minchin spends ripping into religion, it’s tragicomic to see him endorsing one of his own; then again, it seems part and parcel of his sociopolitical outlook: supposedly irreligious Leftists haven’t disposed with God—simply replaced him. Why go to church when […]
by Keith Preston The title of this review essay may well serve to get my name placed in yet another official file somewhere, but two works recently published by Andy Nowicki, a Catholic traditionalist author and one of my colleagues at AlternativeRight.Com, prompts one to give a little […]
MRDA explains.
Recently, there was an interesting exchange between Paul Gottfried and myself at AlternativeRight.Com. It began when I posted a recommended reading list in response to similar lists posted by James Kalb and Richard Spencer. Paul Gottfried expressed puzzlement regarding the eclectic nature of the collection of readings I […]
James Kalb discusses his observances concerning “gender relations” during his time as a math instructor for the Peace Corps in Afghanistan. Read it here.
This is a great bit of commentary from ATS contributor MRDA. This is a particularly good comment: “I wonder: does Morrissey’s little outburst offer a snapshot of what could happen if the Left acknowledge that their favoured folk aren’t always as innocent, victimized and enlightened as they portray […]
Jason McQuinn’s piece on Stirner from Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.
1. I agree with the Augustinian view of the state as a robber band writ large. 2. I agree with the Stirnerite view of political obligation. Why should I obey this guy just because he’s the president, king, mayor, etc.? 3. I agree that democracy is a system […]
The following brainstorming session between Keith Preston and David Heleniak was pulled, with slight editing, from the discussion page of AttacktheSystem.com. KP: Have you seen this latest from Gottfried? http://www.takimag.com/article/christian_heresies/ How would you reply? DH: I disagree with him that Peter Gay’s book on the modern pagans of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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