When you’re rebuilding something from the rubble, it pays to listen to men who have experience doing just that. Men like Wilhelm Röpke,whose books helped construct a viable centrist Right for post-war Germany, and whose economic advice helped launch its “economic miracle.” The state of conservatism today is nothing like so bright as post war Germany, but the comparison is apt.  … [Read More]

Once upon a time, there was a really troubling place known as Iraq that was fraught with inter-ethnic violence, tensions with a an occupying power, and some really bad kids called al-Queda who tempted the good folks with wicked extremism. But luckily some “concerned local citizens” got together and formed a rag-tag crew called the “Sons of Iraq” and finally restored … [Read More]

Made your plans for the upcoming financial Armageddon yet? Betting upon a second Great Depression, or are you like me and thinking that yes, we've got some tough times coming, but the only people that can create disaster are the politicians? Sadly, that last isn't quite as comforting as it could be for it was the politicians and bank regulation … [Read More]

Spengler has found the great moral equivalence between Jeremiah Wright and Southern sympathizers with the Confederacy, and manages to convey in one article all of the arrogance and inanity of the modern Westerner.  Never mind the remarkable lack of moral imagination required to identify fallen soldiers with common criminals, as if answering a call to defend your homes from invasion could … [Read More]

Well, it’s morning—in San Francisco, at any rate—so let’s wipe the sand from our eyes and take a look at today’s links: Hey, remember the anthrax attacks? It’s funny, but practically no one does. That’s because the media—having tried, framed, and convicted the wrong man—got bored with the story, and dropped it. Also: the government seems to have done the same … [Read More]

(The following, time-sensitive text was prepared before the firestorm erupted over my announcement that paleoconservatism may be approaching the condition in which Nietzsche placed his maker. A detailed response to some of the insightful comments that my remarks about the changing American Right elicited will be offered next week. PG) Last Friday the New York Post (April 4, 2008) had in … [Read More]

As the writers on this site manfully struggle to imagine a future for genuine conservatism in the wake of the intellectual decay that has crippled the movement, and the electoral rout which faces us no matter whoever wins, I think it’s worthwhile to point readers’ attention to a figure whose thought cuts to the heart of the modern condition, whose prescriptions … [Read More]

Paul’s announcement of the death of the paleoconservatism—an article which we discussed at length and which I very much wanted him to write—has prompted me to reconsider something that Paul left out of his discussion, the Right’s trajectory throughout the 1990s. This period of time is also known as my childhood.  I, too, was “Right from the Beginning,” and even came … [Read More]

Paul Gottfried has written an epitaph for paleoconservatism, and it is sure to generate a fair amount of controversy among paleos and even among those who might identify more with what he calls the “post-paleo right.”  There is a lot in it to ponder.  I am not sure that I agree that paleoconservatism is dead or dying.  In the future, it … [Read More]

In October 2004, my longtime friend Sam Francis responded to a recent commentary by Franklin Foer in the New York Times about the paleoconservatives as a rising antiwar opposition to the neoconservatives. Foer, a New Republic editor, believed that a defeat for Bush in the fall 2004 election might lead to a repudiation of his neoconservative advisors, and the return … [Read More]