In Last Best Hope, George Packer divides America into four categories of people, about half of whom he despises, and then proceeds to lament their incompatibility as a threat to democracy.
Month: June 2022
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What We Are Reading: June 2022
Short reviews of The Double Life of Paul de Man, by Evelyn Barish, and The Road to Hell, by Paul Liberatore.
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Books in Brief: June 2022
Brief reviews of Drunk: How We Sipped, Danced, and Stumbled Our Way to Civilization, by Edward Slingerland, and Index, A History of the, by Dennis Duncan.
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Sidney Poitier and the Civilizing Act
Sydney Poitier’s films were mature examinations of blackness in American life. Unlike those who followed him, he demonstrated that acting civilized way is not a class or race privilege, but a human obligation.
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Halting the Leftward Lurch
The centrist right has capitulated to the triumphant march of the left, but true conservative opposition, such as Sam Francis offers, is attacked as far-right extremism.
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Remembering Robert E. Lee
Forbearance is a moral principle from which General Robert E. Lee rarely if ever wavered, and his unflinching practice of that virtue is the primary reason that he should be remembered today.
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The High Cost of Getting Started
Living at home with one’s parents and saving money is an increasingly attractive option for young, working adults facing high housing costs.
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Allies on the Transatlantic Right
Conservative nationalists in Europe face the same uphill struggle against the dominant left as do their American counterparts.
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A History of American Identities
In After Nationalism, Samuel Goldman explores three historical attempts at answering the question, “What does it mean to be an American?”
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Justice Harlan’s Color-Blind Dissent
Supreme Court Justice John Harlan helped to shape the “color-blind” legal approach toward race in America, and his views were likely shaped by a man likely to have been his mixed-race half-brother.
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Foreign Policy as Spiritual Warfare: A Conversation With Aleksandr Dugin
The influence of the man known as "Putin's brain" cannot be truly understood without understanding his spiritual beliefs.
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Protecting Democracy from Voters
Barack Obama and other self-professed champions of democracy want tech companies to continue suppressing "dangerous" political speech on their platforms.
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Russia, Ukraine, and the Return of Nationalism
The Russia-Ukraine War has become a proxy fight between American-led globalism and the alternative: a multipolar world of nation-states free from American hegemony.
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The Trouble with Twitter
In poorly educated, highly indoctrinated America, it is not the better ideas that prevail; it is the more pervasive propaganda.
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Wounded Warriors
Reviews of two new films: The Contractor, directed by Tarik Saleh, and The Northman, directed by Robert Eggers.
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We CAN Have a Blacker Math
Since woke academics insist on imposing equality on math history, there is one thing left to do: declare the ancient Greek mathematicians to be black men.
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Polemics & Exchanges
Letters to the editor on the subject of post-war Germany, "effeminate cruelty," George Santayana, and the competing influences on human behavior of genes and culture.
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June 2022
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So-Called Fascism, Canadian-Style
The Canadian left and right are equally guilty of slinging the word “fascist” at their opponents. The partisan reinvention of this term is problematic for the left, as Pierre Trudeau once subscribed to an ethnic and organic nationalism.
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It’s the Culture, Stupid
National Review’s decision to side with Disney against Florida Governor De Santis’s parental rights law demonstrates its capitulation to the left.