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Talk of accents reminds me of another Bowden doppelganger, William S. Burroughs. As an American from the upper-middle class strata of the Midwest, Burroughs escaped some of this kind of regional bigotry.[1] Burroughs eventually developed his own now-legendary voice, a flat, nasal sneer that really “sold” his works when reading them live or on recordings. (more…)
Earl Butz
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Earl Butz
Perhaps my favorite mental pastime is studying the long, stupid, twisted arc of how social taboos develop. What’s especially fascinating to me is how what’s considered sacred and profane can completely flip sides in only a generation or two. (more…)
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk are having a messy public spat over Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which would fund mass deportations while cutting some spending elsewhere. Musk’s main concern is that the bill does not formally codify DOGE’s budget cuts and continues deficit spending at an unsustainable level. (more…)
Theodor Fontane
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Theodor Fontane
Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) is widely regarded in Europe as the major example of German realist writing in the second half of the nineteenth century, although Americans have barely heard of him, obsessed as we are (or at least our German Lit. departments and New York arbiters of taste) with Thomas Mann. (more…)
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Jeremy S. Adams
Hollowed Out: A Warning About America’s Next Generation
Regnery Publishing, 2021
We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
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The familiar narrative surrounding World War Two involves a main theater of war in Europe and Russia, with a late intervention from the USA. But it was, of course, a World War, with fighting taking place across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the world was involved in some way. Even former socialist utopia Sweden, who supposedly remained neutral throughout the war, was not really as uninvolved as it would like to have the world believe. (more…)
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Western Civilization Bites Back here.
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Part 3 of 3 (Part 1 here, Part 2 here).
Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi
This final installment of Fury is a miscellany of letters, essays, and a diary entry. Everything could be fictional. But, as with other texts by Bowden, the fictions might be overlaid on actual people. If you have any guesses about the real identity of such characters as Malcontent Meaning, Priapic Miscegenator, Hitlerite Spaniard, Lift Those Weights Spastic (Cheated Spiderman), Emotional Swivelling, Wistful Romantic, Prickly Armenian, and Splenetic Indifference (Mr. Angry), or any information on the journal Vanguard, please comment below or email me at [email protected]. — Greg Johnson (more…)
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In the contemporary push toward inclusivity, the moral claims of diversity politics are rarely interrogated. Cloaked in the rhetoric of fairness and justice, the diversity agenda promises a more equitable society, one that accommodates the marginalized and recognizes the value of different perspectives. (more…)
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I feel more incapable than ever of loving a woman, because I will always love all the others too much. I wish I had a thousand arms, a thousand lips, and a thousand… temperaments to be able to embrace an entire army of those charming and insignificant beings at once.
-Guy de Maupassant (more…)
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Warm weather, football, hordes of non-white asylum seekers launching fireworks and wielding knives, and parked cars formed a confluence of elements that led once again to riots in France. Over the weekend, Paris and other parts of France saw vehicles ablaze, water cannons at full blast, wanton acts of vandalism and looting, police resplendent in riot gear, Palestinian flags, stabbings, brawls, and sirens. (more…)
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The Norman strain[…]seems to have been radically different in its mental makeup, and to some extent in its physical detail from the Saxons of England and also from their kindred in Scandinavia. The Normans appear to have been a “fine race,” to use a French idiom, and their descendants are often characterized by a tall, slender figure, much less bulky than the typical Teuton, of proud bearing and with clearly marked features of classic Greek regularity. The type is seldom extremely blond and is often dark. These Latinized Vikings were and are animated by a restless and nomadic energy and by a fierce aggressiveness.
-Madison Grant (more…)
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The small city of Springfield, Ohio grabbed headlines during last year’s presidential election cycle when Donald Trump and JD Vance called attention to the negative effects that the importation of some 20,000 Haitian migrants was having on that community. (more…)
