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I listened to the main speeches from Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest 2025 so you don’t have to.
They illustrated several points. First, that a clash between conservatives and nationalists over Trump’s legacy was always inevitable. (more…)
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Joseph Scotchie
Samuel T. Francis and Revolution from the Middle
Shotwell Publishing, 2025
Joseph Scotchie has produced a short, easily digested biography of Samuel T. Francis (1947-2005). It will be especially profitable reading for the many younger people now attracted to white racial defense and the dissident right, but not well-informed about their history. The author appears to have relied largely on published sources, and I have heard surprise expressed at his failure to conduct interviews with some of the people Sam worked most closely with, especially during his last years. (more…)
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In biology, convergent evolution explains how different species can develop genetic traits with similar form or function, yet be evolutionarily quite distinct. Such analogous structures are acquired independently rather than inherited from a common ancestor. One classic example is the sugar glider and the flying squirrel. (more…)
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I had major disagreements with Charlie Kirk on immigration and Israel, as I do with much of mainstream conservatism. In fact, my first article was about roasting Charlie at UCLA during the Groyper War. But we fought each other with words, not bullets. (more…)
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For much of the last decade, conservatives have endured the onslaught of progressive zealotry in America’s cultural and intellectual life. A stray remark deemed insensitive, a tweet judged offensive, or a speech that challenged fashionable orthodoxy was often enough to bring an individual’s career to a premature and humiliating end. (more…)
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Right or Left does not have a chapter on the eighteenth century. Rousseau is mentioned only three times, Diderot and Kant once each. The three references to Rousseau are all predictably negative, linking Rousseau to communist dictatorship and naivety about man in the raw state of nature. An opportunity is missed again, in this case the opportunity to review how right and left view the relation of human societies to biological reality and the natural world and what consequences their views might have in respect of a right or left world view. (more…)
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Their names were Liana and Iryna. They were 16- and 23-year-old Ukrainian girls. They were refugees who escaped the barbaric Russian invasion and sought refuge in wonderful, civilized Western countries; Liana in Germany and Iryna in the U.S. Liana managed to escape Mariupol, her hometown that Russians razed to the ground, plundering, raping, and torturing its population. They believed that they had escaped the savages, stepping into a realm where civilization reigned supreme, untouchable by such primal threats. (more…)
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And so now we move on to the index, that dark, revelatory underbelly where we find who’s been put in and who’s been left out of the story Tanenhaus and company want to tell us. After 15 years of research, writing, interviewing, and re-fact-checking, the book must have first emerged as a draft twice the size of the present doorstop. Great hunks of material had to be excised. (more…)
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Would you like to do more for the cause but don’t know where to begin? Maybe participating in demonstrations seems too risky. Granted, there are reasons for caution. Perhaps you’re not a joiner in the first place. You may be among the millions who’ve been intimidated into silence with the threat of cancellation. For example, let’s say you’re supporting a large family – congratulations! – but you don’t dare speak out since your only income stream is a job in the bowels of Woke Capital. (more…)
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George Hawley
The Moderate Majority: Real GOP Voters and the Myth of Mass Republican Radicalization
Boston: Walter de Gruyter, 2025
Since 2016, we have been perpetually on the brink of a fascist revolution. Or so the left likes to claim, as do many on the Alt Right, albeit for entirely different reasons. There seems to be at least some kernel of truth to this. Mainstream Republicans are at least finally talking about vengeance, even if they stumble on following through. (more…)
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Conservatives often direct their criticisms at Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives by highlighting how these programs may erode merit-based systems and promote ideological conformity. While these concerns are valid, the arguments typically presented are incomplete. By failing to acknowledge the deeper causes of group disparities in educational and professional achievement, conservative critiques remain superficial and ineffective. (more…)
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The Left clutches their pearls about the Constitution whenever the Right attempts to do anything productive, especially on immigration. Using buzzwords like “due process,” which they do not themselves believe in (as shown by the Covid lockdowns and treatment of the J6ers), is a standard Saul Alinsky tactic which is becoming less effective from overuse. (more…)
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Last year, I wrote a series of essays inspired by Don Quixote, the two-volume 17th century novel by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Don Quixote, the titular character, is a fictional Spanish knight who, driven mad by his obsession with tales of knightly chivalry, goes out into the world on an adventure in pursuit of his ladylove Dulcinea Del Toboso, a romanticized figment of his imagination. (more…)