Piers Shepherd remembers two politically incorrect films that defined the Western genre: 'The Searchers' and 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'
Category: Society & Culture
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Post-Menopausal Radicalism
Post-menopausal feminism wreaks havoc on society and will escalate for several reasons.
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How the ADL Invented the ‘Hate Crime,’ Leading to the Conviction of Innocent Men
A reexamination of the 2020 Ahmaud Arbery case.
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Modernity’s Hysterical Voice of Healing
Louis-Ferdinand Céline's writings present an honest depiction of man’s search for compassion in a tragic landscape of death, pettiness, and disregard.
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What Were We Thinking in 2008?
Apologists assured us that digital technology was a “neutral tool," but experience has taught us otherwise. The screen isn’t a passive object; lives are steered by it.
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History’s Dark Glass
Thanks to AI, gazing into the future is no longer spying through a glass darkly, but looking into a mirror reflecting one's own wishes and desires. The past holds no prophecy.
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How Machiavelli Divided the Right
Newly discovered letters between Leo Strauss and the editors of National Review show the magazine’s staff divided over whether Machiavelli was essential to the study of politics or a source of moral corruption.
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Fit Audience Let Me Find
In the age of AI and digital distraction, we are rapidly losing the inclination, and even the ability, to read.
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When Jews Did the Charleston
A new historical documentary series, 'This Happy Land,' reveals how Jewish immigrants were embraced in the early American South and adopted Southern culture—including support for the Confederate Army.
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Conservatism Amid the Signal Flood
Every medium and every change in technology generates new fears about the same old problem—the human tendency to ideological and political theater born of our inevitable and incomplete understanding.
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The Land That Hath No Music
The patriot sings because he loves his own culture; The multiculturalist doesn't sing, he shouts, because he doesn't love, he hates.
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Crossing Borders, Crossing Centuries: The World of Leon Steinmetz
Leon Steinmetz is one of the few artists today who seems to achieve the almost unthinkable conjunction of the classical and the contemporary.
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The Shaman of the Radical Right
The British nationalist Jonathan Bowden has gained a cult-like following since his death in 2012. His image and powerful oratory continue to captivate the online right, especially in Britain.
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Dispossessing America, Again
The outsourcing of American science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is happening on U.S. soil thanks to the tech CEOs and their allies.
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A Quarter Century After ‘The Abolition of Britain’
The problems that Peter Hitchens discussed 25 years ago in 'The Abolition of Britain' have only worsened. The book brilliantly sets the stage for Britain's current malaise.
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Shrinks Psychoanalyze Trump From Afar, in an Attempt to get MAGA Committed
When leftists couldn't beat Trump, they turned to psychiatrists. Cancellation by diagnosis is an old, and effective, left-wing tactic—and cleaner than firing squads!
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The Hazards of Viewpoint Diversity
The honest liberal who strives for neutrality is soon outgunned by ideologues who view academia not as a marketplace of ideas but as an institution that must be controlled.
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The Remarkably Quiet Death of Tackle Football
The gradual, deliberate banning of tackle football is apparent to avid fans. Those in charge will not stop until the game is completely transformed.
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In Rose City, the Dream Has Wilted
Springfield's history provides important context for Donald Trump's wild tales of pet-eating Haitian emigres.
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Woke Eugenics
Woke persons are not an unnatural aberration within the species, but rather, a natural Darwinian flush. They lay down their own genetic interests for the good of the species.
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How the Medical Industry’s Consensus on Sex Changes Fell Apart
High-ranking officials in the Biden administration worked with a transgender NGO to promote mutilating sex-change procedures for minors, according to a recent court-ordered document release.
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Nursing the Nation’s Population Replacement
America has a real nursing shortage but it’s not due to a shortage of immigrant healthcare workers or any of the other reasons routinely given by the oracles of respectable opinion.
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Restless Work, Energetic Play
The family home is a last flickering outpost of liberty, though it is besieged from without by the school and the workplace and vitiated from within by mass entertainment.
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The ‘Marxism’ Narrative Has Gone Too Far
Conservatives who fixate on Communism misunderstand the dynamic driving today’s left and bringing it to power. They are defending a Maginot Line around which the left has already made an end run.
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Trump’s Guilty Verdict: The Electoral Effect
Empirical metrics and political trends suggest Donald Trump's new felonious status will help rather than harm his electoral prospects.
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Racially Aggravated Crimes and the New Hate
The social justice warriors are at war against Western civilization. They rail against “white supremacy” because they see white people as inextricably bound with that civilization.
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Republics Ancient and Postmodern: From Rome to America
That Trump is a would-be dictator has been a recurring narrative on the left for nearly a decade now—and so has the wish that he would be done away with, by one means or another—even violence, if necessary.
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A Liturgy from Hell
Pope Francis has illicitly suppressed the extraordinary form of the Mass and forced an irreverent liturgy down our throats.
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The Trouble with Gender Studies
At New College, we recently ditched the gender studies program, which did not benefit the college in any way but was, in fact, doing great harm.
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Trans Lunacy: The Feminine Touch
The mothering instinct causes women to ensure everyone feels equally valued rather than “left out." This can have serious policy consequences when women occupy public office. Mothering does well in the home, but disastrously in government.
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Lenin’s Tomb
Vladimir Lenin, by his confidence and cunning, left his impression on history and remains relevant 100 years after his death.
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The Death of the Amateur
When college athletics abandons the spirit of play for the reality of pay.
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Francis?
Pope Francis is not dumb or naive. He is a subversive determined to destroy the Roman Catholic Church.
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When Prayer Left Public Life
Sixty years ago the Supreme Court struck down school prayer. This hastened the process of overturning the Western tradition in which Christianity played an integral role in the life of nations.
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The Death of Satire
The absurdity of the modern left, and rise of victim culture, make quality satire impossible. Absurdity is now taken seriously and cannot be mocked.
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John F. Kennedy Remembered Without Tears
Kennedy mythology will be on full display for the 60th anniversary of JFK's murder. Despite all the adulation, the real JFK was a man who can only be described with a four-letter word: Fake.
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Hate Speech for Thee, But Not for Me
South African courts—and western media—have ripped the mask off hate speech laws. Hate speech is not only acceptable but encouraged for anyone with eternal victim status.
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Germany’s Right-Wing Political Miracle
The right leaning AfD is now the second-largest party in Germany, according to recent polls. No one expected this level of success when AfD was founded 10 years ago by a small band of dissatisfied conservatives.
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Diversities True and False
Within the literature and the arts, it is the left that is the least diverse, and the most inward-looking and intolerant of different perspectives.
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The Therapeutic Roots of Wokeism
A new order undergirded by therapism has taken form in the United States.
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The Future of War
The United States and almost all other states are caught up in the biggest change in war in about 350 years. The state is losing its monopoly on war.
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Of Innovators and Men
The forces of innovation, guided by the power elite, are directed against traditional societies and the objective moral order.
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In Defense of Historicism
Studying the history of science makes it easier to resist the tyranny of the pandemic medical experts.
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The Midwestern Identity
The distinctive regional "America," composed of Midwestern German and Scandinavian enclaves, lasted barely four decades, dying as a coherent entity sometime in the early 1950s.
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Tulsi at the Turning Point
Tulsi Gabbard's farewell to the Democratic Party sounds more like a declaration of war. Most of her remarks would pass muster at a Trump rally.
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The Religious Dilemma in the Modern World
Despite the widespread secularization of the modern world, religion and religious interests continue to grapple with the interests of the state.
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Composer Anton Bruckner: A Sign of Contradiction in the Modern Age
Nineteenth-century composer Anton Bruckner was one of the last great Christian paladins of the arts to engage the enemies of our civilization. Our culture is dying today for the lack of such giants.
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As English Goes, So Goes the U.S.
By undermining the Western canon in the 1990s, leftist academics paved the way for today’s ‘woke’ hurricane.
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The Woke Mob Comes for a Marxist
For calling out the woke left, Frances Widdowson, an avowed Marxist, was fired from her tenured professorship at Mount Royal University.