2,527 words Massad AyoobDeadly Force: Understanding Your Right to Self Defense Iola, WI: Gun Digest Books, 2014 In the wake of Charlottesville and other street battles between pro-whites and the Antifa, it is a good idea to take a look at the legal aspects of self-defense. For unlike movies and TV shows where the villain […]
2,072 words “I believe in the certainty of chance,” sang Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy in 1998, a wonderful songwriter musing on one of philosophy’s oldest conundrums. Are events pre-ordained or as yet unwritten? Do we live in a world of free will or determinism? All of us will look back on our lives […]
2,727 words Children of Earth, or more accurately “Children of Britain,” was the Doctor Who spin-off Torchwood’s third outing. Torchwood dropped the Doctor and asked what happens when he’s not around to save the day, a not-unreasonable question given the astonishing frequency the Earth is attacked by aliens. Being a BBC show, it’s always Britain […]
Haverbeck in her youth. 1,073 words Lubert steeled himself. The war had been over for more than a year, but his daughter had still not surrendered. He needed to suppress this little putsch now. . . At Frieda’s bedroom door, he knocked and called her name. He waited for an answer that he knew wouldn’t […]
Juliusz Kossak, Kmita’s Companions on a Ride, 1885. 1,763 words When I first moved to Eastern Europe, I did not have any friends in the region. Thus, I spent the winter of 2017 in solitude. To avoid any feelings of loneliness, I set a goal to finally read Henryk Sienkiewicz’s trilogy of historical novels. I […]
1,584 words More shots have been fired in the trial run of the second American Civil War. On August 25th, Kyle Rittenhouse, a seventeen-year-old citizen-militia member, was attacked at least twice by a Black Lives Matter and Antifa mob during a riot in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was armed with a rifle, and with it killed […]
1,173 words Christopher Nolan is one of my favorite living filmmakers. Tenet is Nolan’s new sci-fi espionage thriller. Tenet is highly imaginative and visually striking. Tenet was filmed on locations in Denmark, Estonia, India, Italy, Norway, and the UK, and its cast includes Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh. But Tenet is […]
1,132 words Believe it or not, there was once a time in the now-enviable 2000s in which Midwestern indie bands were considered the epitome of cool. If you wore plaid shirts (sometimes, with a t-shirt over said shirt), could play passable guitar, and had a just-so-slightly off-kilter voice with which you could sing about outsiderdom […]
Norman Rockwell, Study for “Freedom of Speech” 3,380 words Populism seeks to rescue popular government from corrupt elites. (.) Naturally, the elites strike back. The most common accusation from elite commentators is that populism is “anti-democratic.” As Yascha Mounk frames it, populism is “the people vs. democracy.” I argue that populism is not anti-democratic, but […]
Promotional image from the UK’s Almeida Theatre production of The Duchess of Malfi (performed from November 30, 2019 through January 25, 2020) 5,736 words I. Classical Western Thought on Justice and Revenge One of the most fascinating discussions to emerge from our collective Western inheritance concerns the definition of justice and the double-sided nature of […]
2,131 words The 2011 documentary Empire of Dust provides a one-of-a-kind portrayal of the difficulties facing a construction crew attempting to redo a badly dilapidated Congolese highway. Early on we meet Eddy, playing a key role as a translator. Clearly, he is exceptional: he knows Swahili, Chinese, French, and English, and this takes some doing. […]
204 words In the latest episode of Guide to Kulchur, Mark Weber joins Fróði Midjord to discuss Pat Buchanan’s book Churchill, Hitler, and “The Unnecessary War”: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World. The conversation sets the record straight about misunderstood aspects of the Second World War and reveals how the […]
1,366 words Andrew Roberts is a renowned conservative, Visiting Fellow at Stanford University, and Visiting Professor at King’s College London, who believes that everyone in the world can be educated to love the democratic values of Western civilization. If only blacks and immigrants were taught to appreciate the immense value of Greek philosophy, Roman law, […]
658 words Greg JohnsonIt’s Okay to Be White: The Best of Greg Johnson Hollywood: Ministry of Truth, 2020 226 pages There are three formats for It’s Okay to Be White: Hardcover: $30 (including postage, $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, & the Far East) Paperback: $20 (including postage, add $12 for postage to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, […]
8,516 words Thomas R. PegramOne Hundred Percent American: The Rebirth and Decline of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2011 The Ku Klux Klan suffers from a positively radioactive reputation, even among fellow Rightists. During the infamous family dinner scene in American History X, at which Edward Norton’s Derek Vinyard […]
John Singer Sargent, Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889. 1,766 words Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my […]
Robert Plant (left) and Jimmy Page (right), Chicago, 1977. 2,100 words Someone told me there’s a girl out there With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair — “Going to California” Led Zeppelin’s back catalog already includes songs like “Ramble On” from the rocky Led Zeppelin II and the melancholic classic “Tangerine” from […]
5,583 words Jörg Lanz von LiebenfelsOstara and the New TemplarsTranslated by George KlanderudGermanenOrden Series, vol. 4 The 55 Club, 2019 Deep-sea fish, bats, clairvoyant Frisians in foggy country, the saurian with the electrical central eye in an equally dim, misty world, the wise Nibelung-dwarves have a strange and conspicuous connection to the results of the […]
1,940 words What are we to make of reparations for slavery to American blacks? It’s become a frequently repeated demand lately, and might be even more so later on. The strange thing is that that the further away in time we get from slavery, which ended well before living memory, the pricklier the topic becomes. […]
2,804 words There is no city quite like Detroit, Michigan that exemplifies American deindustrialization. If one flies into the city’s airport at night, one looks down on a dark void, occasionally lit by streetlamps shining their light upon a ruin. By day, things look no better. Vast stretches of the city have become urban prairie. […]
Ethan Ralph 243 words This weekend, Greg Johnson will appear on three livestreams: Saturday, August 22, at noon PST, 3:00 PM EST, 21:00 CET, Greg will join Fullmoon Ancestry and Nicholas Jeelvy on The Writers Bloc on Dlive: https://dlive.tv/Fullmoon-ancestry. Topics include the launch of the National Justice Party, James Lawrence’s “Embrace the Blackpill,” and YOUR […]
Coming soon at National Review: The Conservative Case for WAP 1,135 words Conservatives rarely bemoan degenerate pop culture anymore. It was once a mainstay for Bill O’Reilly and other pundits to lambast the depravity and violence in popular music and film. That’s mostly disappeared with the advent of Twitter. Conservatives love to share how they […]
1,550 words Africa Addio (Goodbye Africa) (1966), co-directed, co-edited, and co-authored by Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi of Mondo Cane fame, is a must-see red-pill documentary for race-realists. Filmed between 1963 and 1965 in Kenya, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Angola, the Belgian Congo, and South Africa, Africa Addio chronicles the exit of the British and Belgian colonial powers from Africa, […]
782 words German translation here Helene Bertha Amalie “Leni” Riefenstahl was born on this day in Berlin in 1902. She died in Pöcking, Bavaria, on September 8, 2003, just after her 101st birthday. She was a highly accomplished dancer, actress, photographer, and film director. Even her most jaundiced critics admit that Leni Riefenstahl is the greatest […]
1,222 words Steely Dan is a band composed of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. Their biggest hits have a kind of eternal life, anthems that grace barbecues, bars, and band jams for their simultaneously irreverent, yet wholesome outlook on American culture. This is perhaps best expressed in the group’s own name — a reference to […]
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