Is the Left Eating Itself?

This is a pretty good summary of what is problematic about what is often passed off as the “left” today. The totalitarian humanist left essentially wishes to compromise Enlightenment values like free speech, freedom of religion, due process, etc. for the sake of “repressive tolerance” and to compromise […]

The Legacy of the Iron Front

Of any outcome that had a reasonable chance in Weimar, the victory of the SPD/Iron Front would have been the most optimal. Ideally, there would be an umbrella alliance for all anti-authoritarians, i.e. everyone who rejects Trumpism, Neoconservatism, Neoliberalism, Fascism, and Communism. “To my conservative friends: let me […]

Founding Startup Societies

The punk rock anarchist ethos of “do it yourself” very much applies the exercise of “class struggle” in the present world economy.  The objective should be to agitate for more and more zones of economic and political autonomy. By Mark Frazier Progress.Org The rapid technological and economic changes […]

The 1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth

Regrettably, progressives, social democrats, and Communists are just as “reactionary” and “backward” as anyone on the right. While social conservatives may want to turn black the clock to the social norms of the 1950s, the “left” wants to return to the economic policies of the 1950s (and, apparently, […]

The Rise and Decline of the State

This book explains how traditional nation-states that have their roots in the Treaty of Westphalia and came into full fruition in the 19th era of classical liberal are largely being absorbed into a transnational framework in which other institutions assume a hegemonic position. The “populist-nationalist” movements that have […]

How the Empire Actually Works

This book is not perfect by any means, but it’s the best academic work for explaining how the global capitalist empire actually works. It is important for radicals to avoid both the anti-Eastern propaganda perpetrated by Western elites, and the view that the East is somehow an alternative […]

The Coming of Neo-Feudalism

Anyone who wants to understand social class in modern America (and the modern West generally) has to read Joel Kotkin, Sam Francis, Michael Lind, Paul Fussell, and David Brooks’ writings on “bourgeois bohemians.” ——————————————— Joel Kotkin’s latest book is now available at Amazon. Our society is being rapidly […]

There’s a culture clash in Roman Catholicism. Guess who’s winning?

It is interesting how the totalitarian humanist ideology is largely replacing mainline Protestantism (like Episcopalianism) as the dominant religion of the WASP upper middle class, and is even finding its way into traditionally “conservative” religious denominations like the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention, and even non-denominational “low […]

Many causes to recent decline in American religiosity; but U.S. more religious now than at Founding

The founding generation of Americans during the revolutionary period were not especially religious. The leadership was comprised mostly of nominal Anglicans, lukewarm or lapsed adherents of the Reformation churches, deists, Freemasons, and (probably) some closet atheists. A few, like Patrick Henry, were low church pietists associated with the […]

How the Pandemic Has Changed Us Already

By Joe Pinsker The Atlantic During the past five months, many prognosticators have prognosticated about how the coronavirus pandemic will transform politics, work, travel, education, and other domains. Less sweepingly, but just as powerfully, it will also transform the people who are living through it, rearranging the furniture […]