Tag: polarization

Renee Good

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In response to massive and systematic Somali organized crime in Tim Walz’s Minnesota, President Trump sent a large task force to beef up immigration enforcement. In addition to DHS, FBI, and IRS agents conducting door-to-door raids on Somali-owned businesses in Minneapolis, ICE was also out in force.

On January 7, an ICE agent shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. This is what we know about the situation so far. (more…)

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Eric Voegelin

Anyone who wishes to live in a relatively tranquil society knows that polarization—that is, the times of das Politische—is anything but reassuring. This is not difficult to understand: during moments of polarization, every situation, act, subject, or object, no matter how insignificant it might appear in more “normal” times, becomes unbearably politicizable and politicized, as though the tangible and intangible alike were ontologically impregnated by the political. (more…)

You can buy Greg Johnson’s Is America Doomed? here.

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This was another radicalizing week.

The Murder of Iryna Zarutska

On Tuesday, September 9th, full video of the murder of Iryna Zarutska was released. We watched in horror as she cringed, terrified of the hulking black orc who loomed over her and stabbed her. We watched in horror as she cried and bled to death. It was awful, but I was already prepared for it.

What I was not prepared for was the bovine indifference of four other blacks sitting near her, who did nothing. Almost two minutes passed before anyone made any gesture of help. By then, it was too late. (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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In December of this year, Ilya Somin reviewed Christopher Zurn’s book Splitsville, USA: A Democratic Argument for Breaking up the United States, which was published in May. Somin offers several good-faith critiques of Zurn’s position on national divorce, and even praises Splitsville as “. . . the most significant, fully developed, and intellectually respectable, defense of the claim that breaking up the union is actually a good idea.” Somin’s main concerns are the feasibility and effectiveness of a national divorce. As a staunch proponent of national divorce myself, I would like to reply to Somin’s counter-arguments. (more…)

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Kevin M. Kruse & Julian E. Zelizer
Fault Lines: A History of the United States Since 1974
New York: Norton & Company, Inc., 2019

Professors Kevin Kruse and Julian Zelizer have written a book in which they argue that the fault lines of America’s polarized political culture started to emerge around 1974. (more…)

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Jason Blum and Craig Zobel’s The Hunt received mixed reviews regarding its sensational plot, where a group of rich corporate types kidnaps Americans — “deplorable” rednecks — to hunt them down.

The Most Dangerous Game, the 1931 adaptation of Richard Connell’s 1924 short story of the same name, is the original source of the “people hunting other people” concept. (more…)

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…)

Franciso Goya, The Disasters of War, Plate 39: Grande hazaña! Con muertos! (A heroic feat! With dead men!).

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On October 1st, with little fanfare, Politico published an extraordinary opinion piece that may be the most important thing I’ve read all year. Titled “Americans Increasingly Believe Violence is Justified if the Other Side Wins,” the essay was penned by three “senior fellows” at the Hoover Institution, New America, and the Hudson Institute, (more…)

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Richard Nixon made a fateful decision on the afternoon of November 9, 1960. He telegrammed John F. Kennedy to formally concede the presidential race. This concession ensured that there was no nasty legal battle or potential constitutional crisis over the election. (more…)

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There was a time that the American mainstream was really interested in the US Civil War of 1860-1865. That time was before Obama’s gloomy second term empowered the insane asylum of weeping non-whites, deviants, mattoids, and Marxists that rejected all American history (more…)

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Weimar comparisons are in the air again. Violent street clashes between Antifa and Trump supporters in Portland inspired a new round of historical allusions to interwar Germany. Long a theme within the Dissident Right, “Weimar America” is now making its way into mainstream discourse. (more…)

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Earlier this month, the New York Times revealed that top-level Democrats have been wargaming possible outcomes of the November 2020 election and are considering secession if things don’t go their way. This should come as a surprise to no one. Since the epoch-changing George Floyd riots — which began in May and are still ongoing (more…)