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Liberalism
Despite American prejudices to the contrary, I refuse to abandon the word ‘liberal’ for what it has almost always historically stood for throughout the world – reason, liberty, property, and free trade. Liberalism in the American context is typically synonymous with the Welfare State, Progressivism, Social Democracy, and the Democratic Party. But for almost the [...]
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Anarchy and Monarchy
Neither anarchy nor monarchy is well understood in America today. To most Americans, anarchists are violent nihilists and monarchs are laughable buffoons. So when I advocate something like ‘anarcho-monarchism’, the masses really get confused. In addition, many leftist anarchists claim that rightist anarchism (anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-monarchism, etc.) can’t even exist. But that is a criticism that [...]
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Right and Left
Revisiting the issues of Left and Right, it was Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s analysis that placed identity on the Left and diversity on the Right. A similar analysis can be found in the writings of Robert Nisbet, but where EKL focuses on identity and diversity, Nisbet focuses on what he views as the two great traditions [...]
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Dark Knight Rises Review
Disclaimer: This article does contain some spoilers I watched the last Batman film by Christopher Nolan, The Dark Knight Rises, this past weekend. It was fantastic, and just as good as the other two movies in Nolan’s trilogy, Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. These three movies, I believe, are among the best socio-political movies [...]
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Libertarian Dictatorship?
Jesse Walker wrote an interesting article over at Reason about the notion by some libertarians that a transitional dictatorship could be a positive step towards liberty, specifically in regard to Hayek’s (qualified) praise of Chilean dictator, Pinochet. In general, I agree with his conclusion. Dictatorships are a messy business and they scarcely lead to more [...]
Credo
The Greeks were right about philosophy. The monarchists were right about authority. The medievalists were right about society. The traditionalists were right about order. The classical liberals were right about liberty. The isolationists were right about diplomacy and war. The Christians are right about morality and spirituality. The libertarians are right about economics and ethics. The anarchists are right about politics and the State.Two Types of American Individualism
In this classic piece, Richard Weaver takes to task two different types of individualism that have been present in the American experience. Reinhold Niebuhr has written that there are two ways “of denying our responsibilities to our fellow men. There is the way of imperialism, seeking to dominate them by our power. The other is [...]
Liberalism
Despite American prejudices to the contrary, I refuse to abandon the word ‘liberal’ for what it has almost always historically stood for throughout the world – reason, liberty, property, and free trade. Liberalism in the American context is typically synonymous with the Welfare State, Progressivism, Social Democracy, and the Democratic Party. But for almost the [...]
The Public is Terrifying
This is representative of the public. This is our American democracy. These aren’t conspiratorial morons; these are just average folks.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and the Bill of Rights
There’s a great article over at The Washington Times Communities about how the Bill of Rights was written for the likes of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. While the article gets inflammatory and exaggerated at points (such as that Boston was under declared “martial law”, when it wasn’t), it’s still an insightful one. Unlike Communist Russia or Nazi [...]
War Crimes
Poor old Frum. One of the biggest propagandists for the Iraq War, he finally admits – after 4,486 American deaths and anywhere from 100,000 to 1.5 million Iraqi deaths – that the war was about oil interests. Only, he wants to wash his hands of any blood and claim he was powerless before the likes [...]
The Portland Declaration
by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn. The Free World today is menaced not only by hostile armies, but by sets of ideas which either reduce man to a purely materialistic animal, or present a philosophy of doubt if not despair. The effect of these ideologies, if they are not opposed, must be to crush us, or at [...]
Credo of a Reactionary
The following was written by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn back in the 1940s. It’s a wonderful credo that any anarcho-monarchist can support. It is simply excellent. Part 1 Part 2
The Rothbard-Rockwell Report
I have finally found an online resource for the Rothbard-Rockwell Report. To my knowledge, neither Lew Rockwell nor the Mises Institute has ever released the RRR online. Presumably, this is because of some of the ‘objectionable’ content found within. There is much value to be found in the RRR, from a fusionist-paleoist perspective. There are [...]
Get a Free Education
With the rising costs in higher education and the looming debt crisis over student loans, many are looking for an alternative. The Internet provides that alternative. There are many resources available that provide complete courses online, for free. Here’s a sampling of those resources: Khan Academy Stanford MIT MRUniversity edX Coursera Udacity OpenStudy Reddit List [...]
Anarchy and Monarchy
Neither anarchy nor monarchy is well understood in America today. To most Americans, anarchists are violent nihilists and monarchs are laughable buffoons. So when I advocate something like ‘anarcho-monarchism’, the masses really get confused. In addition, many leftist anarchists claim that rightist anarchism (anarcho-capitalism, anarcho-monarchism, etc.) can’t even exist. But that is a criticism that [...]
Right and Left
Revisiting the issues of Left and Right, it was Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s analysis that placed identity on the Left and diversity on the Right. A similar analysis can be found in the writings of Robert Nisbet, but where EKL focuses on identity and diversity, Nisbet focuses on what he views as the two great traditions [...]
Was there an American Revolution?
The brilliant Robert Nisbet answers this question in an article from 1974. One of the more illuminating points he makes: “How very different was the American experience: In America, as was not the case in France or Russia, revolution never had a chance to become God.”
