Category Archives: Dark Enlightenment

Trump’s Terrifying Online Brigades

Posted on June 1, 2016 by Max West

Historian Tom Holland compares Trump to Caligula. You can’t make this stuff up. Articles like this are just too common now to warrant commenting on. Here’s just one more. In Commentary, the Tribe (as channeled through James Kirchick) is fretting … Continue reading →

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The “Strange Viral Appeal” of NeoRx

Posted on April 25, 2016 by Max West

Wow, things appear to moving fast. I never expected, not for another 15 to 20 years, a NYT columnist to devote an entire column, in this election cycle no less, on the Neoreactionaries (a subset of the Alt-Right). In his … Continue reading →

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Glenn Beck’s Kool-Aid Cult

Posted on February 2, 2016 by Max West

In RadixJournal, Greg Hood has an excellent piece on the odd demise of Glenn Beck in the wake of the Alt-Right’s rising (“The Kool-Aid Cult“). Of the ‘Constitutional conservatism’ that Beck/Cruz represents: [Beck’s] entire career has been to create a … Continue reading →

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NYT on Stormfront

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Max West

Writing in the NYT (what a surpise!), Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (ahem) temporarily leaves his urban cocoon (at least via his computer’s keyboard) and delves into the world of Stormfront.org, “America’s most popular online hate site” (“The Data of Hate“). Stephens-Davidowitz has … Continue reading →

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Dark Thoughts

Posted on February 1, 2014 by Max West

In “Dark Thoughts“, John Derbyshire weighs in on the recent mini-flurry of Dark Enlightenment coverage.

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Dark Enlightenment: Overreacting to Neoreaction

Posted on January 29, 2014 by Max West

In Takimag, Nicholas James Pell writes on the attention the Dark Enlightenment has been receiving recently (“Overreacting to Neoreaction“). Mainstream liberal blogs have recently discovered the neoreactionary movement, also known as the Dark Enlightenment, which is a plucky collection of … Continue reading →

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The Dark Enlightement: Coming ‘Out of the Shadows’

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Max West

They’re starting to take notice. And there is no such thing as bad press. Here’s a pejorative attempt at a takedown of the Dark Enlightenment from Matthew Walther of ‘Conservative, Inc’ publication The American Spectator (“The Dark Enlightenment Is Silly … Continue reading →

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Telegraph Discovers Dark Enlightenment

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Max West

Bwaa! Ha! Ha! In The Telegraph, Jamie Bartlett warns the villagers that a monster’s coming. (“Meet The Dark Enlightenment: sophisticated neo-fascism that’s spreading fast on the net“) Since 2012 a sophisticated but bizarre online neo-fascist movement has been growing fast. … Continue reading →

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Dark Enlightenment Made Simple

Posted on December 19, 2013 by Max West

Anarcho Papist has a pithy list of tenets held by ‘neoreactionism’ (aka Dark Enlightenment / Race Realist types). While I don’t necessarily endorse each and every item, it’s a great starting point for debate. Libertarians who have given up on … Continue reading →

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Residents of Poorer Nations Find Greater Meaning in Life

Posted on December 18, 2013 by Max West

Science Daily reports on findings published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science: Dec. 18, 2013 — While residents of wealthy nations tend to have greater life satisfaction, new research shows that those living in poorer … Continue reading →

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