71 words / 56:35 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Greg Johnson talks to Fróði Midjord about his travels in the Baltic states, where he spoke at two nationalist youth conferences and took part in two torchlight independence marches. […]
705 words King Crimson’s “Cat Food” was originally released in 1970. It’s a chaotic, piano-centric slice of pop fun that helped cement King Crimson’s image in the eyes of the public as being capable of more than dreary ruminations on dying or losing your mind, as their highly-acclaimed 1969 album In the Court of the […]
1,901 words Anthony Minghella’s The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) has been one of my favorite films since I saw it on the big screen while living in darkest Atlanta. A few years later, post-red pill, I bought the DVD and was struck anew at the brilliance of the script, performances, and direction. But I was […]
1,617 words For decades how, White Nationalists have been telling Republicans that unless they halt the demographic decline of white America, their party is doomed, and the Democrats will create a one-party state. There will come a time when all the Republican conventional wisdom — which, after all, is based on elections in a predominantly […]
1,541 words Former Vice President Joe Biden is now all but assured the Democratic nomination. His campaign appeared dead just a few days ago, and Bernie Sanders was thought unstoppable. Now only an unexpected disaster can stop Uncle Joe. Biden won ten of the contests Tuesday night, exceeding even the most optimistic predictions. The only […]
207 words After his speech at this year’s Etnofutur Conference in Tallinn, Estonia, Fróði Midjord sat down with Gemma Kits, a young Estonian nationalist and fellow speaker at the conference to discuss native Estonian spirituality, traditions, and what it means to be an Estonian. If you liked this interview, be sure to subscribe to the […]
2,872 words One of my earliest memories of the theatre is a Christmas play about Santa Claus teaming up with Batman and Robin to protect Christmas from the Joker. I am near certain that none of the ticket proceeds went to DC, as it was staged in the early 90s in the former Yugoslavia. Even […]
1,784 words Released 12 years ago yesterday, March 3rd, 2008, Death in June’s The Rule of Thirds is a somber and introspective record that tussles with the concepts of aging and death, love lost, and the decay of the surrounding world. It’s recorded in the characteristic stripped-back, solemn, guitar-centric style of Douglas Pearce, Death in […]
2,309 words Richard Weaver The Ethics of Rhetoric Muriwai Books, 2017 (1953). The great task that lies ahead of us is to persuade our people of the rightness of our ideas. It behooves us, then, to study the art of rhetoric, or persuasion. Richard Weaver’s The Ethics of Rhetoric is a rigorous and intelligent introduction […]
7,566 words Richard M. Weaver Ideas Have Consequences Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948 Expanded edition, with a Foreword by Roger Kimball and an Afterword by Ted J. Smith III, 2013. The defeat of logical realism in the great medieval debate was the crucial event in the history of Western culture …. There is no […]
Richard Weaver The Southern Tradition at Bay: A History of Postbellum Thought New Rochelle, New York: Arlington House, 1968 4,501 words Richard Weaver’s The Southern Tradition at Bay has grown in both poignancy and meaning since its posthumous publishing in 1968. Originally Weaver’s 1943 doctoral dissertation at Louisiana State University, this work offers a survey […]
Richard M. Weaver 616 words America wasn’t always a liberal country. The founders drew more upon classical republicanism than liberalism. In the nineteenth century, the populist movement was decidedly anti-liberal. But the founders and the populists were never consistently anti-liberal, because consistency is the province of intellectuals, not statesmen. America never had a genuinely anti-liberal […]
1,582 words Richard M. Weaver Edited by George M. Curtis, III and James J. Thompson, Jr. The Southern Essays of Richard M. Weaver Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Fund, 1987 Richard Weaver is known for two notable ideas that need to be emphasized. First, he proposed that there is an objective truth, not many truths. Second, he […]
1,937 words There are great thinkers, and then there are great thinkers whose prescience is so acute that they seem to operate on a precognitive, almost prophetic level. Included among the latter category is Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963). Weaver was a professor of English at the University of Chicago when the humanities were taken seriously, […]
905 words I recently went with a friend to deliver some groceries to a guy who had a medical problem and couldn’t get to the store. We went to this person’s house and found him on his couch, watching The Breakfast Club on video. He was in his late thirties. His overall style was “hipster.” […]
1,204 words Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite swept the Oscars ceremony this year, winning the awards for Best Picture (the first foreign-language film to earn the award), Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best International Feature Film. It has been hailed as the best film of 2019 and currently enjoys a 99% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. […]
215 words / 70:38 To listen in a player, click here. To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save link as” or “save target as.” Greg Johnson talks to composer Xurious about his intellectual, political, and artistic journey and the censorship of his music by YouTube. 0:00: Introduction 1:46: With Open Gates: The Forced […]
6,431 words Errol Morris’ American Dharma, which is a documentary about Steve Bannon, is probably the most elusive film ever produced by a major filmmaker. Although it premiered at film festivals in September 2018 and received a great deal of press (most of it negative) at the time, it was impossible to see for over […]
1,548 words Is Billie Eilish’s new Bond song, “No Time to Die,” the worst Bond song ever? Close. But sadly, there is a lot of competition for that title. Here is my ranking, from best to worst. Note: Not every Bond theme is a Bond song. Doctor No and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service have […]
1,536 words The Main Thing, the fifth studio album from the corduroy indie band Real Estate, was released today, February 28, 2020. It contains some of their most mature work yet, coupled with a healthy attitude towards introducing more complex synthesizer work and poetic lyricism for an album that can be beautiful in its feather-lightness. […]
2,398 words Protesters march on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in downtown Tunis, 14 Jan 2011 One spark can ignite the whole world, or at least one part of it. It was December 17, 2010, when a young man named Mohamed Bouazizi pushed his handcart down to the market in Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia. Police approached him and […]
2,118 words Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam It has been said that money spent on travel is never wasted. Travelers expand their knowledge of the world, acquire memories that last a lifetime, broaden their minds and, if lucky, have fun. Since I have the good fortune to work in a field that […]
1,844 words Christopher Caldwell The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties New York: Simon & Schuster, 2020 In January, when I first read and reviewed Christopher Caldwell’s The Age of Entitlement, I couldn’t help noticing that the book was being hit by a broadside smear-attack, impressive in its vitriol. Four days before the book’s […]
863 words Eilish. Billie Eilish. Never afraid to wring every drop of money out of a pop sensation, this is who the film industry is having sing the theme to the new James Bond film, No Time to Die. The media is billing this interestingly; the New York Times covered the song with glowing praise […]
Harvey Weinstein leaving the New York Supreme Court. Justin Lane, for Shutterstock. 1,099 words Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was convicted of criminal sexual assault and rape in the third degree this week. He did catch a break in being found not guilty of the more serious charges of predatory sexual assault and rape in […]
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