Alexander Dugin’s Cosmic War
I share the vision of René Guénon and Julius Evola, who considered modernity and the ideologies derived from it—individualism, liberal democracy, capitalism, and so on—to be the causes of the…
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Matt McManus
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Matt McManus is a lecturer at the University of Calgary and the author of The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism and A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights amongst other books.
Marxist Professors and Brainwashed Students: Charlie Kirk’s “The College Scam”
The irritable conservative college memoir, which argues that tertiary education is ruining the US, is a tired minor genre to which everyone from William F. Buckley Jr. to Dinesh D’Souza…
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The Disappointments of Liberalism: Luke Savage’s “The Dead Center”
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.—Robert Frost Liberals have long prided themselves on their pragmatism and moderation. While radical movements on…
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Nathan Robinson’s Response to the Right
There is a natural instinct in unthinking people—who, tolerant of the burdens that life lays on them, and unwilling to lodge blame where they seek no remedy, seek fulfilment in…
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The Enlightenment Paradigm: A Response to Yoram Hazony’s “Conservatism: A Rediscovery”
Introduction by Matt McManus He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able…
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Surviving Dave Rubin’s “Don’t Burn This Country”
January 15th, 2019 was the night I got wasted on a livestream downing shots of Patron. It was also the time I accidentally disclosed my private, personal, email address to…
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Is Postmodernism Neo-Marxist?
What he calls postmodern neo-Marxism is one of Jordan Peterson’s favourite bugbears—even though, by his own admission, the only Marxist work he has read is the Communist Manifesto and in…
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Practical Politics: Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht’s Bigger Than Bernie
When we comment on a political movement, we should avoid depicting it either as destined for victory—a noble upswelling of the common people against the forces of evil—or as destined…
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The Politics of Human Differences
Since their turn towards post-structuralism in the 1960s, left-wing theorists have focused almost exclusively on the philosophical and political implications of human differences. They have typically rejected moral universalism, which…
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Seeing Hitchens Clearly: A Review of Ben Burgis’ Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters
The term “the American Left” is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And…
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“The Conservative Sensibility” by George F. Will. Review.
George F. Will’s The Conservative Sensibility (2019) is a gigantic book that makes a case for why American conservatives should commit to defending right-wing liberalism. It is also intended to…
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Is Liberalism Genocidal, Racist and Elitist?: A Reply to Domenico Losurdo’s Counter-History
Liberalism can refer to many things: a philosophy, a disposition, an educational style—even a brand. But it is primarily thought of as a political doctrine originating in the seventeenth century,…
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“The Authoritarian Moment” by Ben Shapiro. Review
We must firmly reject the notion that speech is violence. Dissent isn’t violence. Disagreement isn’t harm. That’s because politics isn’t an identity; it isn’t a denial of someone’s identity to…
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Robert Reich’s “The System: How We Rigged It, How We Fix It”
Robert Reich, a lifelong Democrat, served in the Carter, Ford, Clinton and Obama administrations, and his views have moved progressively leftwards over time: he endorsed Bernie Sanders for president in…
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Heidegger’s Philosophy and Fascism
Heidegger was one of the intellectual heroes of my youth. Although his prose was infuriatingly convoluted, there was something electrifying about the mysteries the book promised to answer: What is…
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The Unbroken Thread by Sohrab Ahmari
Sohrab Ahmari is a man searching for something bigger than himself to believe in. When he was very young, his family, leery of the Shia fundamentalism of their native Iran,…
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What Kinds of Liberal Freedoms Should Democratic Socialists Support?
One of the biggest controversies on the contemporary left today concerns the relationship between leftism and liberalism. People often use the word liberalism to refer to a location on the…
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John Stuart Mill, Socialist?
In those days, I was a democrat, but not the least … a socialist… [later], our ideal of ultimate improvement went far beyond democracy, and … would class us decidedly…
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