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Category Archives: Political Theory
Samuel Huntington, Prophet for the Trump Era
WaPo has an article on “Samuel Huntington, a prophet for the Trump era”. The article is decent overview of Huntingtons’ intellectual progression from civic nationalist to a more pessimistic, European-chauvinist perspective, which of course the WaPo writer finds abhorrent: President … Continue reading
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Roger Scruton: How To Be A Conservative
The Hoover Institute’s Uncommon Knowledge series just posted a wonderful, 45 min interview with the great Roger Scruton, on the topic of ‘How to Be a Conservative’. From the Hoover Institute description: In the latest episode from Uncommon Knowledge, Sir Roger … Continue reading
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Dialogues in Scrutopia
In The New Criterion, Daniel Mahoney reviews the book Conversations with Roger Scruton, which is a series of interviews Mark Dooley (Scruton’s intellectual biographer) held with the great and incredibly prodigious Roger Scruton: How does one begin to classify the prodigious … Continue reading
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Tablet: “Are the Neocons Still Republicans?”
In Tablet, a Jewish ethnocentric magazine, Chris Pomorski has a piece asking “Are the Neocons Still Republicans?”. Pomorski looks at that element of: the Republican foreign-policy establishment, which has been dominated for several decades by the ideological clique known as … Continue reading
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Spengler vs. Evola
In The American Conservative, Akhilesh Pillalamarri has a brief piece on “Spengler vs. Evola”: The apocalyptic worldview promoted by prominent political figures such as Steve Bannon in the United States and Aleksandr Dugin in Russia is premised on the notion … Continue reading
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American Affairs
American Affairs is a brand new political journal, with a nationalist bent. From the journal’s Mission Statement: The conventional party platforms no longer address or even comprehend the most pressing challenges facing American institutions. Economic mobility is down and inequality … Continue reading
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The Cosmopolitan Gesture
From Greg Johnson’s post “What’s Wrong with Cosmopolitanism?”: The cosmopolitan gesture is different. It is not a search for a new place to put down roots. It is an aspiration to deracination, to rootlessness. It is an attempt to sever … Continue reading
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NRx Summary of Trump’s Victory
In “Reactionary Political Theory on Contemporary America”, Vincent Hanna summarizes the Mencius, NRx interpretation of Trump’s victory: Reactionaries attend to political reality, not to political form. In politics, reactionaries study power, because politics is the struggle for power. Reactionaries study … Continue reading
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Dugin v Neo-Liberalism/Neoconservatism
On my ever-growing ‘To Do’ list is to get a better understanding of Alexander Dugin’s philosophy, as his position appears to be integral to Putin’s foreign policy. James Wald has a very good piece in The Occidental Observer on “Alexander … Continue reading
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Alasdair MacIntyre on the BenOp
From Alasdair MacIntyre’s seminal philosophy book After Virtue (hat tip: Rod Dreher): It is always dangerous to draw too precise parallels between one historical period and another; and among the most misleading of such parallels are those which have been … Continue reading
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