Month: July 2026

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In the first week of 2024, word spread online that aliens had invaded a mall in downtown Miami on January 1, causing mass panic and a city-wide police response. Agitated commenters spoke of twelve-foot-tall shadow beings being filmed outside the mall, multiple witnesses describing non-human entities seen inside, and a hectic cover-up. (more…)

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Colin Bossen
The Political Theologies of Populism: The Garveyites, the Klan, and the Wobblies, 1905 – 1930
Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2026

…all wars and revolutions and all decisive struggles between parties of men arise from a difference in morals and Transcendental doctrine…
Hilaire Belloc (more…)

Vivek with India’s PM Modi in 2025. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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The debate around immigration has long centered on its economic costs and benefits. Much of the populist concern has focused on low-skilled immigrants, those who consume more in public services than they contribute in taxes, placing a fiscal burden on the host country. This framing, while not without merit, misses a more consequential and politically thorny dimension of the immigration question: the influence of high-skilled, cognitively capable immigrant groups who, despite their productivity, can reshape the societies that receive them in ways that are not always in the interest of the native population. (more…)

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The Brotherhood of the Bell is a bold Deep State conspiracy tale, as well as a tasty morsel of nostalgia. This came out when wood paneling was still in style, although soon to go the way of hair grease. There are rotary phones that sit on a desk, with a corded handset no less, and you, like, actually dial them. Adding machines—for real? Oversized sedans with herky-jerky suspension, nosing upward when you hit the brakes? Got all that too! For kids these days, this showcase of Nixon-era manufactured goods surely is almost like visiting a museum for flint arrowheads and spearpoints. (more…)

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A senior bribe-guzzling bureaucrat I knew in Delhi once broke down after dinner and a few expensive drinks paid for by my company. He was highly educated and held major responsibilities, but like every Indian bureaucrat I have known, his working life revolved around bribes, status, and sadistic pleasure.

He could justify any equipment, any design, any decision in a major project if the bribe was large enough. Before payment, he nitpicked endlessly, complaining that even “better is not good enough.” After payment, the same flaws vanished, and he praised the very thing he had been attacking moments earlier. Intelligence, in such a mind, does not serve truth. It serves rationalization. (more…)

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On May 22, 2017, an American pop-star named Ariana Grande played a concert at the Manchester Arena in the north of England. The target market for Ms. Grande’s music is young girls, thousands of whom were in attendance. They became targets of a different kind. Salman Abedi was a young Muslim man, and one would not ordinarily expect him to be attending such an example of Western decadence. But he went anyway. He wore a large black back-pack, which his father had helped him to pack. He must have looked out of place, and even suspicious. (more…)

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Lipton Matthews
Busting African Delusions
2026

There is, within the human soul, the eternal struggle between the head and the heart. And so it goes with Lipton Matthews’s new book, Busting African Delusions. It concerns the economic development of Africa. It is intended to be an intellectual work: cold, hard analysis filled with practical solutions. Matthews is obviously intelligent and a talented writer; as long as he remains objective, the book is excellent. (more…)

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Revilo Pendleton Oliver was born in Texas on this day in 1908. He received his undergraduate degree at Pomona College in California and his doctorate in classics at the University of Illinois under William Abbot Oldfather. He was Professor of Classics at the University of Illinois for many years. (more…)

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This talk was delivered at the Irish National Party Summer Conference on July 4th, 2026. I want to thank everyone who made this event possible.

This is my first visit to Ireland. I didn’t come to see the Cliffs of Moher, the Guinness Storehouse, the Book of Kells, the Ring of Kerry, or the Blarney Stone. I came to see the Irish National Party. (more…)

From the National Cathedral website.

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“That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”
–Excerpt from The Declaration of Independence

Several months ago, I polled my family to plan our summer vacation and we settled on a trip to Washington DC I unwittingly chose the week of the America 250 celebrations, and while I’m as aware as anyone that Washington DC is no longer a welcome place for my family, I nonetheless wanted the experience for both myself and my children, as I’ve never been inside the Beltway. It was only after plans were booked that I happened across the America 250 publicity, and I was pleasantly surprised by the coincidence. (more…)

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Explaining why he was already disappointed by the forces of modern political “conservatism” way back in 1951, the great satirical English novelist and Catholic convert Evelyn Waugh once observed that there was no point in voting Tory (as the UK Conservative Party is also often called) anymore, as, whenever returning back into office following any previous period of socialist or liberal rule, the organization had consistently “never put the clock back a single second.” (more…)

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Jean Raspail was born on July 5, 1925 and died in 2020, less than a month before his 95th birthday. He was a French explorer, travel writer, and novelist. He published 40 books in a literary career that lasted almost 60 years, from 1952 to 2019. The Académie française awarded Raspail two of its most prestigious literary honors, the Grand Prix du roman and the Grand Prix de littérature. In 2003, the French government made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor, which is the highest order of merit. (more…)