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” [...]
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 that reminds readers of [...]
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 [...]
Empire of Liberty
A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
by Gordon S. Wood
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
I 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 [...]
Review of:
Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988
Read 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 authority.” This was the great [...]
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December 27, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Absolutism, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, commercial society, Critique and Crisis, John Locke, Michael O'Meara, modernity, Reinhart Koselleck, religious tolerance, the Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes |
Review of:
Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988
Read Part 1 here.
2. The Culture of Critique
It 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 [...]
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December 25, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Absolutism, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Critique and Crisis, John Locke, Michael O'Meara, modernity, Reinhart Koselleck, religious tolerance, the Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes |
Reinhart Koselleck
Critique and Crisis: Enlightenment and the Pathogenesis of Modern Society
Cambridge: MIT Press, 1988
La politique, c’est le destin. — Napoleon
Koselleck’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 light informed [...]
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December 24, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged Absolutism, book reviews, Carl Schmitt, Critique and Crisis, Michael O'Meara, modernity, Reinhart Koselleck, religious tolerance, the Enlightenment, Thomas Hobbes |
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 created?
38. [...]
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 [...]
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July 20, 2009 | Posted in General | Also tagged aristocracy, decadence, egalitarianism, family, feminism, freedom, Friedrich Nietzsche, hierarchy, individualism, marriage, racial collectivism |
“Is America Unconservative?”
from Taki’s Magazine, June 2, 2009
In 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 brothers, who read the [...]
