Laws for the Tribal New Right
The following is a list of guidelines for the success of New Right organizations. They are designed to emulate Jante Law and Vox Day's 16 Points: they are non-binding, but…
Rhetoric and the Morality of Hatred
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQaNnafo1w Yesterday, I presented In Defense of Hatred to the Northwest Forum, run in absentia by Greg Johnson of Counter-Currents. My speech focused primarily on the importance of rhetoric in defending…
Religious Practicalities
Anyone who has been following the Alt Right internal politics will no doubt be getting a little peeved by the infighting and edge-lording that is coming dangerously close to defining…
Vanity and Improvement: An Ethical Evaluation of the Gym-Selfie
Pride may be a sin, but its true nature isn't how we're used to thinking about it: She says 'I've come of age as a writer in a time when…
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The Violent Artwork of Cleon Peterson
"I'm just trying to communicate strength and aggression through the least amount of strokes as possible." - Cleon Peterson, July 2016 When Andrew Breitbart asserted that politics is downstream from culture,…
Philosophy v. Theology
I was attending a New Year's dinner with some old friends a few years ago, when the subject of philosophy came up. My friend had a master's degree in computer…
Why Christianity?
Today's right wing is rehashing an age-old debate, and one that I myself have grappled with for nearly a decade in some form or another: what faith should the West…
Golden Let-Downs
There's something ironically reminiscent of the Obama years, in the expressions of outrage and betrayal by formerly loyal supporters. We should not be too hard on them -- or on…
English professor Duke Pesta has been a vocal and high-profile opponent of the Common Core standards He is shown Thursday, April 3, 2014 in his office at UW-Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wis. Mark Hoffman/MHOFFMAN@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM
The Autodidact’s Apology
In the course of my research into the origins of the problems of higher education, and of education itself, I have discovered people far older, wiser, more experienced, and more…
The Weakness of Purity
Ethnonationalism is on the return. Classical liberals are rediscovering who they really are. Progressives are progressing... towards what? Conservatives know; as a rule, progressives do not. But they are progressing…