
René Magritte, Golconda, 1953.
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The twofold crises of the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic are perfect opportunities for modern nihilists and culture-destroyers of every stripe to let off all the brakes. It is not often that world events align so cleanly with the rhetoric and goals of our enemies, which presents some troubling developments Read more …
Summer of Our Discontent: The Era of Purity Politics
You preachers of equality, thus from you the tyrant-madness of impotence cries for “equality”; thus your most secret tyrant-appetite disguises itself in words of virtue. [1]
We are living through one of those periodic bursts of madness and irrationality that have always afflicted civilized societies. Read more …