By Michael O'Meara 9
Carl Schmitt’s The Concept of the Political
Note: The following short synthesis of Schmitt’s classic essay The Concept of the Political stems, in part, from a recent discussion with the Bay Area Nationalist Book Club.However it is posed, the question of the political is always about the most important issue facing every people.The political, though, is not to be confused with “politics” or...
Read MoreBardèche’s Six Postulates of Fascist Socialism
Translator’s Note: When liberalism becomes “a foul tyranny masking an evil and anonymous dictature of money” (the basis of Jewish supremacy), everything is inverted and perverted, so that even our word “socialism” is tarnished, associated as it now is with Washington’s Judeo-Negro regime. I thought it appropriate, therefore, to post something...
Read MoreShe Married Him
Editor’s Note: I decided to reprint the following commentary by Mark Richardson because it makes some valuable points about the limits of modern liberalism. After I had formatted it, I followed a link to the original story upon which Richardson is commenting. There I discovered that his article also illustrates the fatal limit of modern conservatism, not in what the author...
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Empire of Liberty
Empire of LibertyA History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815by Gordon S. WoodNew York: Oxford University Press, 2009I have always enjoyed the escapism of reading a good book about the White Republic. It is a relief to return on occasion to an earlier chapter of American history when the racial and cultural foundations of our national identity were unquestioned. White men once...
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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 3 (Conclusion)
Review of:Reinhart KoselleckCritique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988Read Part 1 here.Read Part 2 here.3. The Crisis of the Old Order“When and whenever [men] are subjects without being citizens, they inevitably endow other concerns and pursuits—economic, social, cultural—with an independent and hence rival...
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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 2
Review of:Reinhart KoselleckCritique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988Read Part 1 here.2. The Culture of CritiqueIt was the failure to comprehend the nature of the Absolutist State system (its avoidance of divisive political questions of faith and belief) that gave rise to the Enlightenment and its culture of critique.For...
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The Culture of Critique
& the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Part 1
Reinhart KoselleckCritique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988La politique, c’est le destin. — NapoleonKoselleck’s Critique and Crisis (1959) is one of the great dissertations of the 20th-century German university system.It cast new light not just on the past it re-presented, but on the present, whose own...
Read MoreNietzsche on Freedom
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 38 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols. A discussion question: How might Nietzsche be used to explain why America’s founding generation and the presidents drawn from it were greater than every subsequent generation brought up under the system they...
Read MoreNietzsche’s Critique of Modernity
Editor’s Note: The following is section no. 39 of “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man” from Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Twilight of the Idols.39. Critique of modernity. — Our institutions are no good any more: on that there is universal agreement. However, it is not their fault but ours. Once we have lost all the instincts out of which institutions grow, we...
Read MoreE. Christian Kopff Defends America’s Genuine Right-Wing Tradition
“Is America Unconservative?”from Taki’s Magazine, June 2, 2009In a contribution to Takimag from last summer, Austin Bramwell asked “Why are movement conservative intellectuals so obsessed with refuting positions (e.g., that the United States is an inherently “liberal” regime) that nobody has actually believed in fifty years?” Those few, we band of...
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