And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking/ Racing around to come up behind you again/ The sun is the same in a relative way, but you’re older/ Shorter of breath, and one day closer to death “Time,” by Pink Floyd (1973) Twentieth century American popular fiction can…
Author: Ben Welton
Freelance writer.
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…
Caesarism: Democracy’s Inevitability
American democracy, it seems, is in a tailspin. To judge by recent magazine covers, editorials, and cinematic screeds, our governing institutions are failing to turn the tide against “Trumpism,” which, to the Left, means fascist, racist, and xenophobic authoritarianism. The answer, so many say, is in restoring democracy where now reigns the living orange avatar…
Against Education
In his 1957 book Germany’s New Conservatism, the German expat-cum-American scholar Klemens von Klemperer makes the case that, during the days of Weimar, “strong Nietzscheans” dominated the revolutionary Right. Such thinkers as Oswald Spengler, Edgar Julius Jung, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck formed what was then known as “neo-conservatism,” a term that in American…
Addiction to a Pretty Face
He not only considered it trivial to commit the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, but he also married Jezebel daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and began to serve Baal and worship him — 1 Kings 16:31 The American Left have long annointed the Republicans as the “stupid party.” Traditionally, this conclusion can…
The American Sun 