First, there was the essay against David French. Then there was the answer that was a defense of David French. Then French defended himself. Ahmari takes the knife to French. Dougherty defends him, but it sounds more like a defense to keep French in the big tent. They both have points. I like Dougherty, but…
Month: May 2019
The Creeping Danger of Memetically Stochastic Assassinations
The looming feeling in America is that conflict is coming. Social and political conflict is ever present. What matters is the level, frequency and whether conflict is physical or philosophical. America’s progressive ideology has allowed the elite to politicize everything, creating fault lines where none should exist. The next step is creating targeted violence with…
The Grifter’s Guide to America
Jim Thompson was, by his own admission, a bad boy. Born in the tiny boomtown of Andarko in the Oklahoma Territory, James Myers Thompson had an upbringing that was simultaneously rugged and eccentric. His father, a man whom he called “Pop” but the US government called James Thompson, tried to make a living at a…
A Pyrrhic Victory In The Land of the Dead
Firstly I should acknowledge this post may not win me friends, but I do not write for friendship. Secondly, I must state clearly that I oppose abortion and consider legal rulings against it a good thing. With those disclaimers out of the way let me attempt to articulate my position on why the Christian Right’s…
Dugin vs. Dugin & the Post-Western West
The Fourth Political Theory Alexander Dugin, Arktos, 2012. 211pp. Ethnos and Society Alexander Dugin, Arktos, 2018. 236pp. The mainline of academic thought regard Alexander Dugin, if they regard him at all, as regressive – a political academic, and worse, a Russian academic, which is to say not an academic at all, but one of these…
Memorial Day + Five Friday Reads 5/24/19
Memorial Day is upon us. Veteran’s Day is for veterans and Memorial Day is for those who have given their life for our nation. Please make this distinction. The airheads of Instagram will take selfies and say how much they support our troops, but they get a day in November. This holiday is for remembering…
Network Strategy
“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.” – Thomas Sowell Robert Metcalfe, co-inventor of Ethernet and founder of internet equipment company 3Com developed the concept of the network effect around 1980. What became known as ‘Metcalfe’s Law’ stipulates that value of the network…
Sickness and the Übermensch
Sick. I got sick recently. Like, gross sick. Gunk coming out of my throat and nose, volcanic diarrhea, head swimming, headache, shooting pain – the list goes on. While I fought this gross intrusion on my daily life, it reminded me why I don’t believe half of what Nietzsche said. Naturam expellas furca,tamen usque recurret. The…
When Methodists Fought Back
Since the papacy of Francis, it seems there is not a month that passes without the Pope embarrassing himself or the entire church with his behavior or words. The Methodists decided to give him a break this winter and contributed to headlines across America. The United Methodist Church decided to not bend the rules of…
Bundy: Final Thoughts
Bad Billy Pratt… Was Ted Bundy insane? Too easy to say yes but not quite fair to say no, so I offer this: when Bundy was days from execution, throwing everything against the wall hoping for a postponement, he named hardcore porn as the spark that led him to kill. And this is where the bugman begins to take up arms…
The American Sun 