If you can, please support a Canadian dissident right-wing journalist:

Hey all,

I and others here have previously mentioned this excellent Canadian journalist:

http://www.theambler.com/

As one can see in his latest post:

http://www.theambler.com/aug16-31_04.htm#paypalappeal28ag04

he’s in rather difficult straits these days…

KMG is one of the only Canadian journalists on the Right who isn’t a neoconservative. He’s gotten some work writing for Chronicles, though it’s just … More ...

Further adventures in inclusivity

The logic of antidiscrimination law continues to work itself out: scholar proposes compulsory “tolerance” within churches. The argument’s no joke if you’ve thought through the implications of existing legal principles regarding equality of opportunity and access and the separation of religion from public discourse. Whatever the activity, you have to rearrange it to make … More ...

Family matters

Maybe in another 114 years I’ll link to Time Magazine again: here’s a story from their current issue on the oldest living American, my grandmother-in-law. [Obligatory reference to political theory: her full name is Emma Verona Calhoun Johnston. That’s “Calhoun” as in John C. Calhoun, although she’s not a direct descendent.]

Fact and value

In today’s world it’s natural for there to be a great many accepted turns of thought that encode liberalism and modernity. An example is the “fact/value distinction.” That distinction involves the belief that two quite different sorts of things are involved in the way things are for us: facts, neutral statements about a world that’s … More ...

Technocracy and the culture war

I usually discuss the current situation by reference to fundamental liberal concepts like freedom and equality, and try to show how those concepts come out of the modern turn away from the transcendent and toward immediate experience and formal logic, and how they naturally lead, though various forms of modernity, to what we have today. … More ...

What should the Right be discussing?

The Right has been losing badly for a long time, and the rate at which it’s losing seems to be picking up. If that’s so, and part of the problem has been that we’ve been paying attention to the wrong things, how can we turn that around?