Tag Archives: America in the 1970s

Voyager 2, loading into a Centaur rocket.

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I suspect most people have particular topics that affect them profoundly and cause a welling up of emotion that most other people would find a bit strange. For me, the topic is space probes. When I watch documentaries or read articles about them, I tear up the way we all tear up at a piece of heartbreakingly beautiful music or a cynic-proof rendition of the national anthem. After the unmanned spacecraft Cassini completed its mission in 2017 and sent back its stunning images of Saturn, the probe’s creators issued Read more …

Published: August 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Cassini mission, Faustian man, Kathryn S, movie reviews, NASA, North American New Right, originals, space, space exploration, spirituality, Voyager in Space, Voyager mission | 15 Responses

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The Carter-Kennedy Feud of 1980

Morris V. de Camp

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Jon Ward
Camelot’s End: Kennedy vs. Carter & the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party
New York: Twelve, 2019

The US Presidential Election of 1980 turned into a vicious civil war within the Democratic Party. The conflict centered upon the incumbent President Jimmy Carter and Senator Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts. Read more …

Published: May 4, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, book reviews, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, Ted Kennedy, the civil rights movement, the Democratic party | 6 Responses

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Wise Blood

Trevor Lynch

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John Huston’s Wise Blood (1979) is one of his lesser-known films, but it deserves a wider audience. Based on Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 novel of the same name, Wise Blood is the most faithful screen adaptation I have ever seen, largely because the screenwriter truly loved and understood the source material. The script was written by Benedict Fitzgerald, who knew Flannery O’Connor from childhood. Read more …

Published: March 27, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, Catholicism, Christianity, Flannery O'Connor, John Huston, materialism, movie reviews, North American New Right, religion, reprints, satire, the South, Trevor Lynch | 5 Responses

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Reflecting on Anita Bryant

Morris V. de Camp

2,576 words Cover of The Anita Bryant Story.

Anita Bryant
The Anita Bryant Story: The Survival of our Nation’s Families and the Threat of Militant Homosexuality
Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1977

The culture wars of the 1970s deserve considerable study. One of the cultural warriors was Anita Bryant. When I saw a used copy of her book denouncing the militant homosexual movement, I snatched it up immediately. Read more …

Published: March 17, 2020 | Posted in North American New Right | Also tagged articles, homosexuality, Morris V. de Camp, North American New Right, originals, the 1970s | 13 Responses

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The Original Death Wish: A Review

Spencer J. Quinn

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Death Wish
Directed by Michael Winner
Screenplay by Wendell Mayes
Starring Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Stuart Margolin
1974

By the early 1970s, Americans had begun to notice a change in their big cities. After the Civil Rights movement and the 1965 Immigration Act, the multiracial rot – the inevitable by-product of the Left’s ascendancy in the West – began to set in. Read more …