By Jordan Jacob The Efficacy of the Right’s Pursuits The dog days of the public New Right movement in America are dragging on in post-Charlottesville America. Meanwhile, veterans of the great meme war occupy themselves with foreign happenings in Brazil, France, Italy, and the like so as to escape the mundane merry-go-round of Trump Twitter…
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Subsumed into the Zeitgeist Part One: Carmen
Some names and identifying details have been changed to protect the privacy of individuals in the story. Carmen was a Spanish girl from a family of considerable import – most Sevillanos would probably recognize her father’s name. I could argue that her asymmetrical nose was characteristic of her Spanish heritage, but her only hallmark Spanish feature was beady…
Uncucking Agape: A Homily
The following is something that I hope can cast away some of the misconceptions regarding “Christian Love” or Agape. The idea is so imbued with ugly distortions from modern secular morality that I found it necessary to write more for this than any other in my series on the virtues. Here is the homily which…
Prisoners – A film review
By JJ Prisoners is one of the best crime /mystery films I’ve ever watched; it is a near-perfect story from beginning to end. It has layered themes throughout it, and in many ways allows the viewer to project or intelligently speculate elements of the story for themselves. The symbolism is done right in Prisoners. Honestly,…
Tao
“St Augustine defines virtue as ordo amoris, the ordinate condition of the affections in which every object is accorded that kind of degree of love which is appropriate to it. Artistotle says that the aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought … In early Hinduism that conduct in…
Whitewashing Aztec Sacrifice
Americans have just exited the multi-month season where the media and diligent foot soldiers of the left harass them about celebrating their heritage of discovering the continent and founding the nation. This is a season in the progressive calendar. This leads into the war on Christmas during December, which then flows into the MLK glorification…
Penitents In Search Of Leaders
What is becoming an annual ritual, Halloween’s growing pagan adult festival ends and No Nut November begins to internet crews encouraging one another to refrain from reckless sex with a few scare stories in the media about this odd phenomenon. It has overtaken Movember for male oriented November activity. This year Rolling Stone fired shots…
Dekalog: Requiem for the Law
In the dispensation of the Old Covenant, God placed the Israelites under the Law as a means of disciplining and chastening a hard-hearted people. The Law under Christ and the dispensation of grace is reconfigured—not abolished, but fulfilled—as it was never an end unto itself, but was always pointing to the One to come. In…
Building From Within
It is easy to destroy. You can break a vase in a second that took hours to make. Same with institutions. It is also easy to criticize. Pointing out the absurdities of contemporary America is something a child can do. Building is different. In a society where progressives destroy all that they see, it is…
Banking for The Culture
In recent years, those on the right in the political scene have become very much aware of the atmosphere of censorship and de-platforming. It is getting hard to keep track of who has been tossed off YouTube, Patreon, and various other platforms. Those who are remaining have experienced intentional algorithm changes which have led to…
The American Sun 