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John Zmirak

When Johnny Comes Lurching Home

Posted by John Zmirak on May 09, 2008 / Comments (8)

Perhaps the greatest compensation for trading cramped digs in Rome for a spacious house in the U.S. is that I have my beagles back. Susie and Franz-Josef are out back now, sniffing the trails of long-scampered squirrels, and howling merrily for blood. One advantage of living in New Hampshire instead of New York is that “out back” refers to the spacious … [Read More]


Justin Raimondo

Rise and Shine

Posted by Justin Raimondo on May 08, 2008 / Comments (15)

How hated are the neocons?—When even sports writers are on your case, you know the peasants with pitchforks can’t be far behind. From a piece headlined “Are the Mariners the Neocons of Baseball?”: “Should we be worried the Mariners are baseball’s equivalent of the Bush Administration? Fiscally undisciplined with negligible positive returns? Check. Marketed as veteran leadership despite any veterans … [Read More]


Leon Hadar

Global Hybrids Go Home [Zeitgeist Watch]

Posted by Leon Hadar on May 07, 2008 / Comments (11)
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During the height of the globalization age in the late 1990s, many leading Zeitgeist watchers were celebrating the rise of the “New Cosmopolitans,” a term coined by business reporter G. Pascal Zachary. A new civilization was being born out of the increasing flow of money, products, ideas, and most important, people, across the borders of decaying nation-states. In this post-modern globalized … [Read More]


Taki Theodoracopulos

When the Elites Had Class

Posted by Taki Theodoracopulos on May 06, 2008 / Comments (5)

NEW YORK--So there I was, at the Waverly Inn, Graydon Carter’s little toy that is the hottest ticket in the Big Bagel since two years, when the booth next to mine filled up with young people, all of them scruffy and dressed like the homeless, their girls rather plain and some of them even ugly. Par for the course, I thought … [Read More]


Christopher Roach

The Relativist Roots of Libertarianism

Posted by Christopher Roach on May 06, 2008 / Comments (68)

Conservatism is sometimes criticized as unprincipled, relativistic, or contradictory.  This criticism stems from the very nature of conservatism; it is a philosophy rooted primarily in attitudes about change, so its starting point is always a given society, as it is found in all of its contradictions.  Conservatism recognizes how the various goals of civilized, social life are often at odds with … [Read More]


John Zmirak

Sometimes a Racist, Always a Slut

Posted by John Zmirak on May 06, 2008 / Comments (60)

Should pro-lifers keep citing Margaret Sanger’s scathingly racist statements, and her program of eugenics—which directly influenced Hitler, and led to laws in a dozen or so American states forcibly sterilizing or even castrating thousands of the “unfit” who flunked primitive I.Q. tests? Good question. What matters most is whether such a rhetorical attack works at undermining liberal and non-white support for … [Read More]


Russell Seitz

Alcohol-Tobacco-Firearms: The Hunt For Red November

Posted by Russell Seitz on May 05, 2008 / Comments (1)

The road to the White House often intersects the path of rapidly moving projectiles.  Bravely volunteering to put themselves and their horses, naval vessels and airplanes into the way of arrows bullets , cannonballs torpedoes, and the odd destroyer launched Jackson, Tyler, Lincoln, Grant, Roosevelt, Kennedy, and Bush 41 into the Oval Office ,and Senator McCain’s close encounter with a … [Read More]


Tom Piatak

Darwin, Alone, Is Not Enough

Posted by Tom Piatak on May 04, 2008 / Comments (39)

Ben Stein’s movie Expelled has generated lots of commentary, most of it negative.  Many have claimed that it is obscurantist and hostile to science, a veritable first shot in a wider war against knowledge.  Despite employing the same type of techniques that garnered Michael Moore an Oscar (and much critical acclaim), it has a 9% positive rating at rottentomatoes.com, the sort … [Read More]


Daniel Larison

National Consciousness And Nationalism

Posted by Daniel Larison on May 04, 2008 / Comments (11)

I thank Dr. Gottfried for his response, and I appreciate the point that he and several commenters have made.  From the reaction to the last post, I see that I must not have been sufficiently clear about what I meant.  National consciousness did exist prior to the rise of nation-states, and indeed was the basis for the cultivation of nationalist feeling … [Read More]


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Shallow Walters

Posted by Taki Theodoracopulos on May 09, 2008
Taki Theodoracopulos

It is indicative of the disastrous social trends that began in the 1960s, that we are now faced with the most odious kind of snobbery, that of celebrity, namely that of … [Read More]

The Arsenal Of Time

Posted by Russell Seitz on May 09, 2008
Russell Seitz

Taki writes in The Truth About Good War of “the madness that gripped Versailles, a vengeful spirit that alienated America, mutilated Germany” But it did as much to motivate as mutilate- … [Read More]

GOP gets fiscally responsible—denies veterans benefits

Posted by Richard Spencer on May 09, 2008
Richard Spencer

Since the GOP didn’t feel many pangs of conscience over No Child Left Behind or the 500 some-odd billion dollar Medicare extension package, it’s rather surprising to be reading passages like … [Read More]

A Neoconservative Categorical Imperative

Posted by Christopher Roach on May 09, 2008
Christopher Roach

Kant famously tested any moral precept by his categorical imperative:  “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” … [Read More]

Kauffman Speaks

Posted by Richard Spencer on May 09, 2008
Richard Spencer

It is extremely rare indeed to attend an “Old Right” speaking event and find the entire audience, including the liberals and neocons on hand, rolling in the aisles. But such was … [Read More]

Correcting Richard

Posted by Paul Gottfried on May 08, 2008
Paul Gottfried

In his response to an article on the supposed, mystifying limits of spreading democracy by Lawrence Kaplan in The New Republic, Richard Spencer seems bothered by Kaplan’s examples that “all … [Read More]

Recent Comments

Re: The Truth About the "Good War"

If it is now “neoconservative” to oppose WW One but support WW 2, then I guess that I am a neoconservative after all.  By the way, paleos who compare the Iraq … [Read More]

Posted by Grant Havers on May 09, 2008
Re: Shallow Walters

“Women to blame for it”?!  Isn’t this just another version of the insufferable victim-talk which we paleos usually accuse leftists of promulgating?  Sorry Tom, but there are scads of men today … [Read More]

Posted by Grant Havers on May 09, 2008
Re: Shallow Walters

To Marie Claire’s Sister. God did not give you a vagina so you could sit around and philosophize.  Pleeeease.  The women of my generation need to start having children and stop … [Read More]

Posted by Tom on May 09, 2008
Re: When Johnny Comes Lurching Home

Dear John: I have to tearfully tell you goodbye. I enjoyed you immensely, but as much as I do, I cannot in good conscience frequent a site Nazi apologetics, as Taki … [Read More]

Posted by Adriana on May 09, 2008
Re: The Truth About the "Good War"

Taki you have convinced me. The US should not have gone to war. Greece would have done just fine under Hitler. I will have to leave this site, though. I can … [Read More]

Posted by Adriana on May 09, 2008