Neo-Confederates and Free Markets

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Why do Neo-Confederates give a nonreflective adherence to the ideas and practices of the free market, when such adherence results in social and political consequences at odds with a a conservative social order?

What, generally speaking, is to be done?

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A commenter asks those who post here “What does your ideal America look like?” The question’s worth discussing.

From the standpoint of specific practical political goals, I don’t really have an ideal America. No society is ideal, since every society depends on the cooperation of imperfect human beings. The specifics of what’s good politically depend … More ...

The politics of being

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In America politics is more and more a matter of social metaphysics:

  • If your position and beliefs incline you to believe that the social world is horizontal and self-contained, and consists solely of the individual and various contractual and legal collectives (e.g., if you’re single, godless, a celebrity, an elite lawyer or
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The band still plays on

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I’ve commented that the AIDS industry promotes death through a sort of perverse moralism: sexual freedom and sex equality, which from the standpoint of advanced liberalism are absolute metaphysical necessities, trump medical and public health considerations, which the spoiled children of techocracy believe infinitely manipulable. One illustration: the World AIDS Conference, at which sexual … More ...

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 ...