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Category Archives: Philosophy
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
Posted in Political Theory, Politics
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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
Posted in Cultural Marxism, International, Political Theory
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Fear of Rogue AI = A Western White Man’s Concern
In “Intelligence: a history”, Stephen Cave, executive director and senior research fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, muddles into some mucky P.C. virtue-signaling: If we’ve absorbed the idea that the more … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Political Correctness, Technology
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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
Posted in Dark Enlightenment, Political Theory
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This Sense of Exclusion
From an article in The New Humanist on the Derrida-Searle debates, back in the heady days when Postmodernism seemed unstoppable: Jacques Derrida, the third child of five, was born in Algeria, then still a French colony, to Sephardic Jewish parents. … Continue reading
Posted in Jewish, Philosophy, Postmodernism
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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
Posted in International, Political Theory
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The Public Intellectual & The Dodo
In “Whatever happened to the public intellectual?” David Herman asks “Philosophy used to be a staple of television and the newspapers. Not any longer. So where did all the philosophers go?” Two of the better explanations discussed in the piece … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Culture, Philosophy
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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
Posted in Death of the West, Ethics, Political Theory
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Strauss & Identitarianism
In a brief post on “Strauss and Identiarianism”, Charles Lyons writes: Leo Strauss is an important 20th century thinker on the American Right, particularly the neoconservative movement. He had a very strong Jewish identity, and viewed his philosophy as a … Continue reading
Posted in Alt-Right, Jewish, Political Theory, White Identity
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