Spengler, Making The World Safe For Triumphalism And Slaughter

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 ...

Morning Links, Again

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 ...

Sucking Up As Usual

(The following, time-sensitive text was prepared before the firestorm erupted over my announcement that paleoconservatism may be approaching the condition in which Nietzsche ...

Imagining a Future for Conservatism

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 ...

Right From the Beginning

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 ...

After Paleoconservatism

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 ...

A Paleo Epitaph

There was a time, roughly between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s, when the paleoconservatives looked like an insurgent force. In 1992, they found in Pat Buchanan a powerful ...

Egads, Identity Politics!

Tom raises an important point in this brief post.  As I have said countless times before, all democratic politics is identity politics, and identity politics should not be a ...

Reasoning About Reason

In the ongoing debate over the merits of Reason, I have not really said anything, but I should say a few things.  The tendency that Justin and Thomas Woods critique so well ...

Ron Paul, the Birchers, and the Delicate Sensibilities of David Weigel

Not content with having lost hundreds of subscribers due to their priggish and intemperate attacks on Ron Paul for not measuring up to the Beltway’s strict standards of ...

Intelligence Failure”€”Why America Can”€™t Think Its Way Out of Iraq

The fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War was marked by a deluge of retrospective commentary, much of it focused on the past: how we got into this conflict and how it ...

They Are The Hollow Men

Last week at NRO, cub reporter Stephen Spruiell announced that he had found what might be “the most deceptive ad” of the 2008 race, a Barack Obama spot blaming free ...

Our Task

Because of the numerous responses to my latest observations, followed by the firm statement of policy by Richard Spencer, I am offering this further comment about our past ...

Those Dangerous Racists at Vogue

The latest media chatter concerns whether a certain cover of Vogue is “racist” because it portrays model Giselle Bundchen alongside basketball player LeBron James in a ...

Barr None

Before the Gravelanche, word began to circulate that another more promising major-party defector might seek the Libertarian presidential nomination: former Republican Congressman ...

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On any website or blog, those who leave comments make up a minute fraction of the readership. Those who spend hours a day composing sundry and bizarre screeds are even more rare, ...


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