Tag: deep state

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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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Meaningful dialogue across an ideological divide can be quite difficult. It’s enough of a challenge with mainstream conservatives, who just need a helpful nudge out of the kiddie pool, but often are hung up on ineffectual positions such as civic nationalism, neocon military adventures, misplaced egalitarianism, and libertarian economism. (more…)

Kamala Harris. Image courtesy of Wikipedia Commons

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Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to Kamala Harris laugh? It’s quite unnerving. Her cackle is like hearing a pack of hyenas chortle after finding day-old carrion on the veldt. Sometimes it happens when she’s talking about Venn Diagrams or when she’s trying in vain to address a serious subject like water security and droughts. (more…)

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Peter Oborne
The Triumph of the Political Class
London: Simon & Schuster, 2007

Některé knihy se podruhé narodí. Každé dílo s politickými motivy se snaží být prorockým – jen čas však dokáže rozsoudit jejich úspěšnost. Orwellův 1984, Bloomovo The Closing of the American Mind (Uzavírání americké mysli), Huntingtonův Střet civilizací nebo Fayeho Konvergence katastrof lze považovat za knihy, jejichž čas nastal. (more…)

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Fiona Hill
There Is Nothing For You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century
New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2021

You may well remember Fiona Hill as a “fact witness” from Donald Trump’s first impeachment. I thought I would hate her, but after reading her book, I found that she is actually fairly reasonable and motivated by many of the same concerns that I am. I’ll explore the problems in her policy proposals and overall worldview at the end. (more…)

Liberals’ ideal police force.

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For the last 20 years, America’s elites have talked feverishly about police racism in order to avoid talking about black crime. — Heather McDonald, The War on Cops (more…)

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Netflix thinks pimping preteens is a great way to market its new movie Cuties. The French film follows a dance troupe of 11-year-old girls who discover their “femininity.” Netflix advertised the film with images of the girls in suggestive outfits, which inevitably drew a public backlash. The streaming giant apologized for the advertisements (more…)

René Magritte, Hegel’s Holiday, 1958

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This week Greg Johnson concludes his conversation with Counter-Currents writer Nicholas Jeelvy, answers questions from our Entropy donors, and thanks all recent donors for their support. The podcast concludes with a reading of Scott Weisswald’s “Wisterias.” (more…)

US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland meeting with Ukrainian President-elect Petro Poroshenko in June 2014.

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A denationalized foreign policy has many heads and hearts, but no soul. It supports imperialism in one part of the world and opposes it in another. It upholds human rights in some areas; in others it honors and rewards the violators of those rights. (more…)

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A little more than two years ago I published a piece on this site titled “I Keep Forgetting that I’m Not an American.” The occasion was Wikileaks’ release of “Vault 7” and the reaction from establishment Republicans. Vault 7 consisted of thousands of documents revealing the CIA’s ability to compromise smartphones and smart TVs, as well as Web browsers and even cars. As I mentioned in my essay from 2017, I greeted this news with elation: “The bastards have been exposed!” (more…)

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Poznámka autora:

Poněkud zkrácenou verzi následujícího textu jsem přednesl na druhém setkání New York Forum 16. července 2016. Rád bych tímto poděkoval týmu NY Forum i všem přítomným. (more…)

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Author’s Note:

This text was presented in somewhat abridged form at the second meeting of the New York Forum on July 16, 2016. I want to thank the NY Forum team and everyone who was present.  (more…)

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729–1781) bol nemecký filozof, dramatik a esejista. A bol tiež slobodomurár. Dňa 14. októbra 1771 bol zasvätený do slobodomurárstva v lóži Troch zlatých ruží v Hamburgu. Lessing mal očividne veľké nádeje v slobodomurárstvo, ale pomerne rýchlo ich stratil. V rokoch 1776-77 napísal dielo Ernst a Falk: Rozhovory pre slobodomurárov, ktoré bolo venované vojvodovi Ferdinandovi z Brunswicku, jednému z najvýznamnejších slobodomurárov.  (more…)