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My relationship with the band Iron Maiden has been one of love and hate over the years (“The thin line between love and hate”?). My first conscious encounter with the band’s music (their name was already familiar to me because someone had taken the liberty of spray-painting “Iron Maiden” across the street from my school in the early ’90s) was through the album Virtual XI (yes, with Blaze Bayley on vocals), which to this day is one of my favorites. (more…)
Keir Starmer, likely the next PM of the United Kingdom. (Official UK Parliament photo)
Keir Starmer, likely the next PM of the United Kingdom. (Official UK Parliament photo)
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You can’t appease everyone
When Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer was paying attention at Reigate Grammar School in the 1970s and I wasn’t, he may have come across that old conundrum; What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object? (It’s an illegitimate question, by the way, due to its inappropriate use of temporality, but that’s for another day.) If he was not previously aware of this intellectual teaser, he will be now. (more…)
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Part 2 of 2 (Part 1 here)
Dante’s Inferno
Dante Alighieri’s conceptual map of Hell also lay at the intersection where biblical and classical ideas about the afterlife crossed. Virgil, fellow Italian poet and ancient Roman author of the Æneid, accompanied him during much of his journey, for Virgil was someone who had imagined his own hero Aeneas successfully navigating the underworld. (more…)
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For years, contemporary Chile was considered a remarkable demonstration of the inevitable triumph of economic and political liberalism. (more…)
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The following translation was contributed by the Chilean identitarian organization Fuerza Nacional-Identitaria. The original Spanish version is here.
For decades, local Left- and Right-wing oligarchies have been feeding on the decaying body of Chilean society. Today, these two vultures are fighting over a date in our history which offers both of them a treasure trove of hollow patriotism: September 11. (more…)
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Editor’s Note:
In honor of Banned Books Week, we are pleased to publish James Dunphy’s article on Madison Grant’s The Conquest of a Continent, a book targeted by the Anti-Defamation League to be stifled, lest it give white Americans “nativist” ideas.
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German translation here
The Southern Cone of South America encompasses Chile, Argentina, and Uruguay, which have landscapes and climates much like those of Europe and North America.
The Southern Cone is also the home of many Europeans. Although Chile is majority non-white (mestizo), (more…)
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