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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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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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While it is indeed true that progress is an ideal dear to most people on the left, Weißmann does not say how the right, or those said to be on the right, themselves evaluate progress. This is regrettable, for different perceptions of what progress means is arguably characteristic of underlying differences between right and left world views. (more…)
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Karlheinz Weissmann
Rechts oder Links: Von der Notwendigkeit politischer Unterscheidung
(Right or Left: On the Need for Political Differentiation)
JUNGE FREIHEIT Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, 2025
The first time that I visited the United States, I stayed with a friend in Virginia. On my arrival at his home he offered me coffee and blueberry muffins. (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…)
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To be “on the left” is an apparently arbitrary binary classification of one of two dominant political hemispheres. Broadly speaking, being on the left signifies collectivism, internationalism, and more recently, government-enforcement of utopian egalitarian beliefs about class, race, gender and religion. (more…)
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Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. One becomes a growling conservative, the other a chirping liberal (I think of them as woofers and tweeters). Why the difference in outcome? A likely explanation, or so it seems to me, is that political orientation is innate or, as we would say today, a result of genetic predisposition. (more…)
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As you probably already know, the “left wing” versus “right wing” political chasm first appeared when it cracked through the French National Assembly during the Revolution of 1789, when defenders of France’s monarchy and the Catholic faith positioned themselves on the right side of the Assembly, and supporters of the republican revolutionaries aligned themselves on the left side. The most technically correct and pedantic definition of “right wing”, therefore, is a political system or ideology which favors hierarchy, aristocracy, monarchy, tradition, and Catholicism. (more…)
Phil Eiger Newmann, The Arena, 2020.
Phil Eiger Newmann, The Arena, 2020.
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Any belief, no matter how desperately well-intentioned, in the efficacy and wisdom of democracy depends on the fundamentally flawed notion that the average voter is anything loftier than an easily frightened and brainwashed lab rat. (more…)
The Godfather of “respectable” conservatism, William F. Buckley, Jr.
The Godfather of “respectable” conservatism, William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Many on the Dissident Right these days like to deride conservatives. Conservatives are seen as the boobs who have been at least nominally in charge of the Republican Party since the end of the Cold War. We all know the names: Newt Gingrich, George W. Bush, John McCain, John Boehner, Mitt Romney, Mitch O’Connell, Paul Ryan, and many others.
Behind them all, pulling their ideological strings, was the Godfather of modern conservatism William F. Buckley and Jewish neocon writers such as William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. (more…)
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What is a true right-wing position? What is truly on the left?
Recent debates between Vox Day and Greg Johnson, and with Andrew Anglin, have called into question the true political allegiance of the German National Socialist Party, as well as that of national socialism more generally. (more…)
