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In the film The Dark Knight Rises, the villain Bain ironically incited the people of Gotham to “take back their city”. So too must the true Right take back all of America’s cities. It is time for President Trump to use force to wrest the country back from the corrupt. (more…)
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In the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, leftist influencers began either blaming the Right for most of the political violence in America or calling for both sides to turn down the heat. It was a profoundly ironic moment, one that, thankfully, most conservatives and right-wingers saw through fairly easily. (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…)
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Prime Ministers and Presidents are both the political premiers of their respective countries, but there is a subtle difference in status between the two. The British Prime Minister (PM) has always operated on the primus inter pares principle first recognized in Imperial Rome: first among equals. (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…)
Charlie Kirk in debate with George Abaraoyne in May 2025.
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Charlie Kirk in debate with George Abaraoyne in May 2025.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk seemed to provide the final clinching piece of evidence that all possibility of fruitful debate between the two opposing sides in the West’s ongoing internal civilizational war of survival is now, like Charlie himself, stone cold dead. (more…)
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Because I am not particularly familiar with American non-alt conservatism—nor with the minor figures and initiatives associated with the GOP—I was mostly unaware of Charlie Kirk as a political personality. And yet, his outrageous and untimely death at Utah Valley University compels commentary, not only because it was a death provoked by the battle of ideas, but also because of the disturbing chain of consequences it has unleashed. (more…)
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Charlie Kirk’s life was ended at 31 years by a still unknown assassin during an outdoor speaking event at Utah Valley University. Kirk was a political commentator well known for his Turning Point USA organization and his college campus visits, where he would debate students on virtually any political or cultural issue. Kirk leaves behind a young family with two children. I hope his death will be a catalyst for a significant legacy and place in history. (more…)
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By now we have all heard about the shocking and tragic assassination of conservative pundit Charlie Kirk. For me it was a devastating turn of events simply because Charlie Kirk was part of the American Right—if not a brother, then a close cousin. I really felt the loss. Yes, he was mainstream. Yes, he was pro-Israel. Yes, he had made many bad calls. I’m sure quite a few of us would make bad calls now and then if put under the spotlight as often as Charlie was. (more…)
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On Wednesday, September 10th, I watched Charlie Kirk die, shot in the neck by an assassin as he spoke on the campus of Utah Valley University. There are reports, unconfirmed so far, that his wife and young daughter were present. My heart goes out to them and all who mourn his death. (more…)
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Whether we like it or not, most people aren’t deep thinkers. This is especially so for those who pointedly tout themselves as independent minds. For quite some time, it’s been a common problem for leftists, who usually have no idea who implanted the ideas into their soft heads. One notable effect is that their rhetoric usually resembles a tapestry of strung-together clichés, which is a symptom of what their diminished mental universe looks like. (more…)
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We should not talk to ordinary people. They are not people. It’s okay to shoot them.
-Gudrun Ensslin, founder member of Baader-Meinhof
I am the world’s forgotten boy.
The one who searches and destroys.
-Iggy Pop, Search and Destroy (more…)
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Stalin’s dictatorship, too would be expected to foster ‘a permanent condition of stress by creating enemies at home and abroad and/or by imposing upon the population gigantic tasks that would be unlikely to be carried out in the absence of the dictatorship’ as well as, ‘a charismatic image of the dictator,’ ‘a utopian goal, carefully kept in a remote future’ and ‘proscription of any deviating values, supported by threats and acts of repression.’
-Stephen Kotkin, Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941, Penguin, New York, 2017, p. 306. (more…)