Truly.  What is wrong with sipping port and smoking cigars?  We should really be denigrating the neo-cons as nouveau riche beaufs, not accrediting them with the good sense to have a nice cigar.  I suppose the detail of the cigars being stolen from one’s father is necessary.  And perhaps they should be sipping brandy with their cigars.  But there is nothing wrong with port after a meal.  Perhaps it goes better with cigarettes.

I really like the changes, and you actually have advertisers!

Advertisers on a paleo-con web site?

Who’da thunk it.

I like the change. The conservative movement has needed something like this for a long time. Although I am a communitarian, I find the discourse here unusually stimulating for a conservative website, far superior to the likes of the hidebound National Review or the god awful The Weekly Standard.

“Communitarian,” Prozium? That’s the best use of euphemism I’ve heard since 1994, when a “revisionist” I knew called totalitarian states such as Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Russia “goal-oriented societies.” I spent 3 years trying to deprogram him, and was relieved when it turned out he wasn’t really a Nazi, just gay.

The new format is great, but I would like to know what happened to Mr. Patrick Foy. I enjoyed his contributions to this site.

“Goal oriented societies”!

That’s a good one!

Zmirak, as what euphemism do you believe Prozium was using “communitarian”?

The slide show looks nice, but shouldn’t the feature stories also appear in a form where all can be seen at a glance? That would be a little more convenient. Also many like to open links in new tabs, impossible with the flash slideshow.

Further, you can’t tell where the center column of links to articles on other sites (under the date) point to without clicking, or hovering your cursor and looking at the status bar. Maybe there could be small print under each link that says e.g. “Foreign Affairs, March/April 2008”

Yes, I have been a communitarian since my undergraduate days at Auburn. In recent years, as I have watched the degeneration of America continue unabated, I have grown progressively more radical. My “generic authoritarianism” is a pragmatic response to emergency circumstances (social disintegration), not a timeless ideal. I have accepted the fact that a strong hand is necessary to reign in capitalism and sweep out the garbage that has accumulated under liberal democracy. Gradual reform through mainstream channels is no longer an option at this point. The demographics are too far gone. Given enough time, say, a decade of watching the GOP drift further to the left on cultural issues, or the floor blowing out from underneath the dollar, you will accept that conclusion yourself.

Conservatives were never serious about fighting liberalism. American conservatism itself is a mere restatement of classical liberalism. These people put the nation-wrecking, community destroying “free market” up on a pedestal; the very logic of which (the contract) has invaded, colonized, and reordered the family, in addition to undermining traditional gender roles. They generally agree with the ideal of Freedom-Equality-Tolerance being sold to us by the Left. I never see conservatives pointing out that pornography or abortion are profitable businesses, or that they are rationalized by appeals to “liberty of the individual.” It’s always government that is the enemy. In all fairness, they do make a few good points there.

I’m really not a Nazi or a Communist. I just see both as being less of a threat to Western survival than the “happy death” that comes with Americanism (liberal capitalist democracy). It’s more insidious and subversive than old fashioned totalitarianism ever was. Say what you want about Fascists, but at least they could reproduce themselves. They also figured out that the people were worthy of preservation and rejected ontological individualism. But enough of that. If you wish to debate these issues, you know where to find me.

This site is just about the only online site for political commentary I bother to visit. I hope it lasts forever!

Say what you want about Fascists, but at least they could reproduce themselves. -Prozium

And destroy the very nation they professed to love and protect. I also dont think reproducing because you hate something is an effective way to capture a womans heart.

Congratulations on the new look. This magazine is really a breath of fresh air—and the new design just enhances everything. Very nice.

The new format is great,keep up the good work.

Well, I am a communitarian.  I am a monarchist.  Euphemisms are not necessary since there is no need to cover up the fact.  I am a monarchist who believes the common good is primary and that private goods are derivative.  Mr Zmirak, please refrain from pulling a Jonah Goldberg and making an argumentum ad Hitlerum like you did with poor Prozium up there.  I believe Juan Donoso Cortés, Louis de Bonald, and Joseph de Maistre happened to be right.

I will take my conservatism with no individualism, thank you very much.  Man is sociable in essence, and the fundamental basis for society is the collection of families into a community.  As there is no family without the father as head, so there is no rightly ordered society without the King as Sovereign.

Quite simply, and I do not believe Mr Zmirak has it in him to disagree, Quas Primas (Pius XI), Nostre Charge Apostolique (St Pius X), and Libertas (Leo XIII) are superior in theory (and their authors in intellect) to Rousseau’s Contrat Social, Locke’s Second Treatise, the musings of Montesquieu, and the Federalist Papers.

The Divine Hierarchies, On Kingship, and Politics Taken from the Very Words of Scripture by St Dionysius the Areopagite, St Thomas, and Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, respectively, are of more merit and weight than the works of Jacques Maritain, Russel Kirk, and Ludwig von Mises.

<<I am a communitarian.  I am a monarchist.>>

The problem is:

Who is the “King of America”?

My opinion:

Each and every person who is the “final authority”; sovereign, free from being able to be over-ruled by the consent of his subjects.

For example, in my family, the youngest living brother of my grandmother would be by whom all decisions are made - he is, quite literally, KING.  A king of not quite even 40 or so people, but a king nonetheless.  This is the reality of the USofA - we don’t have several thousand years of history (read: war) to sort through numerous families; the egalitarian spirit of America prevents that, all we have are our families here, no “kings and queens” of any size.

To play “monarchist” in America is a bit foolish.  One shouldn’t consider himself a “monarchist” when there is no traditional “monarchy” to deal with, but instead clans.

There really isn’t even a word that describes a people led by a clan chief..."clannist"? “chieftainist”?

Capp asked, “Who is King of America?”

Oh come on, that’s an easy one.  ELVIS!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Gopc3fgnXDw

@Charles:

John was not attacking the word communitarian; he was laughing at its use by Prozium.  Go visit Prozium’s website sometime, and you might understand why.

@Scott P. Richert

Apparently I jumped to accuse Mr Zmirak too soon.  My apologies, John.

I was unaware that Prozium had a website.  Is that an International Third Position website or simply a neo-Nazi American racialist one?  It’s hard to tell; regardless, ‘communitarian’ was a euphemism indeed.

I’m not a “Neo-Nazi.” I dislike bellicose nationalism. I’m not a fan of Hitler’s aggressive foreign policy. There is nothing on my blog about volk nationalism either. If you click on the ‘About’ tab, you will find that what I oppose is Liberal Capitalist Democracy, which I believe is in the process of destroying Western civilization. The Americans who want to attack other nations and rule the world tend to be conservatives like Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. They post on popular websites like Free Republic. In contrast, virtually all racialists opposed the Iraq War from the beginning like Bill Clinton’s Kosovo campaign before it.

Zmirak can cackle about the Third Reich all he wants. It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives are surrendering the American Southwest to Mexico and Western Europe to Islam, or that they are scraping the U.S. economy and selling off the pieces to China and Arab SWFs. They have done more long term damage to the United States and Western Europe over the last fifty years than Hitler could have ever dreamed of doing. In domestic policy, Hitler cracked down on “degenerate art,” built opera houses, swept out legions of subversives in the universities (give the man some credit there). Under George W. Bush and the followers of the “Reagan Revolution,” 50 Cent is a best selling musician, Britney Spears is a role model, Brokeback Mountain is an Academy Award winner, and Norm Podhoretz is a respected intellectual.

Come on, now. I want to know why Americans are getting poorer, why all these foreigners are here marching through our streets with Mexican flags, why our culture is such a materialistic sewer, and how you intend to address Peak Oil. This shouldn’t be happening after 50 years of conservatism, right? Speak to me about the hear and now, and what the future holds, not about what the Pope was saying in the 12th century, or how WW2 was a bad idea (I already know that).

Note: Don’t tell me that Catholicism is the solution. If the Pope has spoken out against the colonization of Western Europe by Muslims, I am unaware of this. From my vantagepoint, it looks like he is on the other side of the fence. Also, the Spanish and Italians can’t even reproduce themselves now, which draws into question the efficacy of the Holy See.

Excellent work on the site redesign! However, and I’m probably in the minority here but… I think Flash sucks.

Excellent posts Prozium.

Conservatives have been Gramsci’d.

Richert and Zmirak can whine all they like about the cultural changes they deplore, but when you don’t dare define and defend a people, you cannot hope to defend a culture.

“Richert and Zmirak can whine all they like about the cultural changes they deplore, but when you don’t dare define and defend a people, you cannot hope to defend a culture.”

That’s right.

If we don’t have the courage to define and defend our people then everything else we say will be reduced to disconnected, academic hand-wringing.

Don’t get on Zmirak’s bad side- he might respond to a substantive argument by calling you a homosexual.

<<Don’t tell me that Catholicism is the solution.>>

Especially when the only real solution is more Mexicans.  Enough Mexicans to overwhelm this Revolutionary “culture” in America.

Remember: Mexicans themselves, over a period of decades, have continued to turn back their own secular mess of a country.  Whereas Mexico went from having the Freemason Benito Juarez as el Presidente, to devoutly Catholic Felipe Calderon today, Americans have went from having Freemason George Washington to Freemason George W Bush.

So, who is winning the “War against Liberal Democracy”?  The Mexicans are forcing the Liberal Democratic Freemasons out of power.  It’s time you understand what is going on Down South.  And it is time you come to your senses and try and bring that counter-Revolution to America.

While I find the “libertarians” in the conservative movement as loathsome as the neo-cons, or the multiculttural white liberals that smother rational discourse in Academia.
Takimag.com is like oxygen to a lot of us, drowning in the crapola that dominates the American Corporate Media.

Keep up the great work, along with American Conservative, and Counterpunch Magazine, the truth will come out...hopefully it’s a beginning, the spark that will save America.

As Taki is the most handsome man I have ever seen, I would expect nothing less from him when it comes to a webpage.

Scott,
I used the term “paleo-porn” the other day to describe the sometimes obscene screeds issued here. You have to admit, Prozium’s website is a must for the trench-coat crowd.

Am I the only one to notice that neo-conservatives never use the term “neo-conservative?”

Will anyone address Prozium’s arguments, or will those opposed continue to use “trench coat crowd” ad hominems and the archetypal character assassination through association with Hitler technique?

No wonder ‘conservatives’ are losing the war of ideas, the “culture war,” and everything else for that matter.

“Will anyone address Prozium’s arguments?”

Prozium has put me at ease after this reassuring disclaimer;
I’m not a fan of Hitler’s aggressive foreign policy.”

I mean how can one quibble with that? Only an alarmist would note there is no reference
to Hitler’s domestic policy, right?

See here and here.

Many of the links labeled “Read More” bring me back to your front page.  I’m using Mozilla, is that a problem?