History, the Holocaust, and the Doctrines of the Church

Antifascist news sources from the New York Times to the Süddeutsche Zeitung to the Associated Press have been acting in unison of late decrying the Nazi occupation of the Vatican. From these frantic accounts, it seems that Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication that his predecessor had ...

The Patron Saint of White Guilt

Today the American media, politicians of all stripes, and public educators will invariably fall into rapturous tones describing the black leader whose birthday is then being celebrated, namely, Martin Luther King (1929-1968). King's birthday is the only national holiday devoted to an individual ...

Auster’s Anger

Having already received several frantic notes about Taki's comments concerning Israel's campaign against armed Hamas members and other targets in the Gaza region, perhaps I should go public before these mounting inquiries get out of hand. In the case of Taki's sworn enemy Larry Auster, there may be ...

George McGovern Conservatives

In the The American Conservative, Dan McCarthy presents as a hero of the antiwar Right former South Dakota senator and onetime Democratic candidate for the presidency, George McGovern (1922- ). From Dan's account, it seems that McGovern is a "€œtemperamental conservative, an antimilitarist, and a ...

Who’s The Christmas Grinch?

Having just watched John Gibson on FOX-news discuss The War On Christmas, his commentary on trouble-making atheists, which is a theme that Bill O"€™Reilly has also worked for profit, it seems Gibson has a skewed view about our cultural wars. In his view, our country is fine, save for those ...

Cui Bono With the Bailouts?

For the first time in my life (and I trust it will be the last), I find myself siding with the otherwise abhorrent neocons against a young, courageous giant of the Right, Tom Piatak. Equally surprising, I differ from Tom on the kind of issue that I would usually agree with him about. Now I"€™m ...

Chuck Baldwin’s Party

My gentle (and not so gentle) readers are all urged to join the Constitution Party, the Christmas celebration of which for Lancaster County I had the pleasure of attending last night. Among the speakers and celebrants were Jim Clymer, who ran for the US Senate, Dan Frank, who was the recent ...

The Decline and Rise of the Alternative Right

For years I"€™ve belabored acquaintances with the observation by stating that the paleoconservatives who had spent their lives butting their heads against the American conservative movement, were becoming less and less useful. Note that I do not excuse myself from this judgment entirely, for what ...

A Narrative Too Far

With all due respect to Derek Turner and the authors of A Bridge Too Far, Philip Claeys and Koen Dillen, and the Vlaams Belang, the organization to which these excellent young men belong, I must dissent from their brief against Turkish entry into the European Union. The last reason I could imagine ...

Northern Michigan Evangelists

In a recent phone conversation, Richard Spencer made an observation I then tried to qualify. Richard noted that Western Christians "€œare obsessed with being virtuous."€ At a time when the Christian belief system has eroded, this fixation has led to exaggerated expressions of group self-denial ...