The Reactionary Outlook
You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all the improvements in your conditions which you simply take for granted you…
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How the Engaged Left Can Argue With The Right
Several months ago, Galen Watts and I published two articles on what we called the engaged left. In these pieces, we provided a brief genealogy of progressive thinking and activism,…
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Dave Chappelle and Comedy
While accepting the prestigious Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the legendary Dave Chappelle recently made a firm defence of freedom of speech and the right to offend against what…
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Personal Narrative at the Expense of Fact: Ariel Saramandi’s Essay on the Alt Right
An earnest and moving essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books about the alt right in Mauritius is sadly plagued by lazy factual errors that undermine its intellectual integrity,…
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Rejected By the Tribe: What Political Extremists Reveal About the Rest of Us
Persecution, or the perception thereof, is a powerful social glue.
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Why I’m a Liberal Who Fights the Left, Even in the Age of Trump
This is an argument about how to defeat the lunatic right by criticizing the lunatic left.
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How Not to De-Radicalize a Twitter Neo-Nazi
I’d logged onto Twitter for my daily briefing, and was now having to justify my existence to a girl called Chelsea who was tweeting angrily at me for being born in…
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How the Left’s Orientalist Stereotypes Inspired the Alt-Right
As the diffuse set of political currents often referred to as the “alt-right” continue to increase their visibility, numbers, and influence, some of their leading figures have appropriated new strategies…
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The Rise of a Moral Panic
The classic example of a moral panic involves a society losing its mind over witchcraft, as when more than twenty innocent people, mostly women, were hanged or otherwise killed following…
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If It’s OK to “Punch a Nazi,” Then It’s OK to Punch You
There’s a meme circulating on the internet which righteously urges everyone to “Punch Nazis.” Promoting this phrase has become a virtue-signal in certain circles of the left, and even among…
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A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
This document is very long and detailed so a brief bulleted summary is provided below for those who don’t have the hour it takes for a careful read. Modernity, in…
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Why Bruce Lee’s Legacy Should Inspire Us to Revolutionize — and Modernize — American Political Discourse
I am in a particularly creative mood, so I’ll write a bit about something I discussed in a recent public debate in NYC on Political Correctness: Martial arts has greatly…
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Ron Paul, InfoWars, and the Alt-Right: Trump’s Actions in Syria Shake His Supporters
Bashar al-Assad has dropped as many as 13,000 illegal barrel bombs on civilians in 2016 alone. He is known to regularly use chlorine gas on his people, and, along with Russia, deliberately…
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