Short reviews of 'The American Cinema' by Andrew Sarris, and 'Ressentiment' by Max Scheler.
Tag: Nietzsche
Immoral Cultural Arbiters
America’s culture is damaged not so much by the low standards of the entertainment industry as it is by the calculated strategy of anointing these vandals as moral authorities.
The Sources of Our Woke Politics
A response to Grant Havers on the question of the sources of woke politics.
Our Homegrown Ideological Enemy
We do not have to go searching abroad for the roots of our own ideological ruination.
Fate, Tragedy, and Repentant Imperialism
Robert Kaplan has distilled the lessons of a life spent in pursuit of tragic knowledge into two books of differing size and scope: The Tragic Mind and The Loom of Time.
The Winding Passage Back to Plato
In The Narrow Passage, Glenn Ellmers reminds readers of the need for a robust understanding of nature in any well-grounded conservatism.
What’s Wrong With the Intellectuals?
The intellectual classes and the Gnostic revolution.
Books in Brief: February 2024
Short reviews of From Immigrant to Public Intellectual, by Murray Sabrin, and The Classical and Christian Origins of American Politics, by Kody Cooper and Justin Dyer.
When the Cure Is the Poison
John Agresto is full of ideas about what needs to be done to fix the broken liberal arts tradition. Unfortunately, his proposed plan won’t work—they're too liberal.
The End of Liberalism Nears
In his latest book, Francis Fukuyama sees liberalism under threat from extremists on both the populist right and the identitarian left.
Empire of the West
A critique of the destinarian political philosophy of Francis Parker Yockey.