George Fitzhugh, The Failure of Free Society, and The Philosophy of the -Isms
George Fitzhugh attacks the philosophy of the -isms [...]
Philosophy
The Ancient Idiot
Here’s an excerpt from the next book that I will be reviewing, Larry Siedentop’s Inventing the Individual: The Origins of Western Liberalism: “Religious [...]
Alexis de Tocqueville: Of Individualism In Democratic Countries
Over the past few days, I have been working on an article called “Top Ten Problems Holding Back The Movement.” I had identified “extreme [...]
Democracy: The God That Failed
Judge Andrew Napolitano has written an interesting article called, “What If Democracy Is a Fraud?” “What if you were allowed to vote only because it [...]
Roger Scruton: How to Be a Non-Liberal, Anti-Socialist Conservative
Great Britain As I have researched the decline and fall of Haiti, I have grown more interested in the origin and spread of the ideas that led to this disaster, and the [...]
Justice: Equality or Inequality?
Alabama Here’s the link to the Facebook discussion in which I spend much of my time arguing that justice is inequality and [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: The Counter Current, or Slavery Principles (1856)
Louisiana “We begin a great conservative reaction. We attempt to roll back the Reformation in all its phases.” – George Fitzhugh, 1863 George [...]
Jonathan Bowden Has Passed Away
Britain OD was saddened to learn this afternoon that our irrepressible Nietzschean comrade Jonathan Bowden has died of a heart attack in the UK. I had the pleasure of meeting [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of the South (1861)
Virginia William Falconer’s The True Question: A Contest for the Supremacy of Race, as Between the Saxon Puritan of the North, and the Norman of the South appeared in the [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: Robert Barnwell Rhett on the “Age of Reason”
South Carolina Here’s another except from Rhett: The Turbulent Life and Times of a Fire-Eater on the Enlightenment: “And there was another threat. At Beaufort [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: Nathaniel Beverley Tucker on Race and Secession
Nathaniel Beverly Tucker: Architect of Confederate Nationalism Virginia Nathaniel Beverley Tucker of Virginia, the half brother of John Randolph, is one of the most obscure, [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy (1863)
Virginia Frank A. Alfriend’s A Southern Republic and a Northern Democracy appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in May 1863: “It is no [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: The Races of Men (1860)
Virginia This is an excerpt from Henry Washington’s The Races of Men which appeared in the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond in April 1860: “I now come to [...]
Liberalism Travels Full Circle
Australia H/T Amren It is certainly one of the great ironies of history to see anti-liberals arguing for toleration of heretical opinions and self described liberals arguing [...]
Confederate History Month 2012: William Lowndes Yancey on The Temple of Our Liberty
William Lowndes Yancey on the Temple of Liberty Tennessee This excerpt from William Lowndes Yancey’s Memphis speech seems a fitting way to celebrate Confederate History [...]
March Madness: Sandra Fluke, Kony 2012, and Trayvon Martin
Have we learned anything this month from media manufactured outrage? United States A few questions: (1) Were you one the dumbasses who bought into the media driven hysteria [...]
Alexander Stephens’ Virginia Convention Speech
Alexander Stephens explains the foundation of our system of government Virginia In his Virginia Convention Speech, Alexander Stephens offers us a real contrast to the Baby [...]
Southern Heritage Quotes: John C. Calhoun on Liberty
John C. Calhoun believed that bestowing liberty upon a people unfit for liberty would be a curse rather than a blessing South Carolina In his Disquisition on Government, John [...]
Arizona Challenges The Voting Rights Act!
Arizona's next flag? Arizona Which American state will strike the first blow for freedom from BRA’s Union? It was South Carolina last time around. The spirit of [...]
Dixie’s Olympics
Alabama In the Plantation Nation, the Roll Tide faithful are still true to their Cavalier Roots (Editor’s Note: The Muse of Hate has been given the day off after [...]
The Muse of Hate: Vulcan’s Forge
Vulcan, the Roman god of fire, towers over Birmingham Alabama It is another bright summer day in the Sunny South. Philosopher King is working overtime to cover “the [...]
Warrior Monks
Amerika Amerika.org is posting some great stuff lately. The buzzsaw of minds is whirling in the right direction here. In particular, we need to go back to take a close look [...]
The Economist Goes To Church
Constantine would feel a bit woozy if he could see through Cramer and Kudlow with those eyes Alabama One day in the Sunny South a philosopher king went to church, the oldest [...]
Mammon’s Temple
Ever hear of a pyramid scheme? Wall Street “Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: [...]
Barbarism Meets Black
Great Moments in BRA History, 1965 Watts Riot England After reading this article in The Daily Beast, I can’t help but wonder why the Left has waged an unrelenting jihad [...]
Conversation With Almighty
The right frequency to understand the common man Alabama I submit to the liberal establishment that there is a story out there which resonates with the common man like no [...]
#24. Leisure Time
Alabama Now that I hear the sound of “cultural engineering” on television (sounds like the smart people are figuring out their problems), I want to take a nap and [...]
Hate’s Parable
It was really that simple Alabama It was just another day in the Sunny South. One day a philosopher king walked by a dog (he was out trying to get some physical exercise) who [...]
#12. The Metapolitical Project
To: Greg Johnson The “metapolitical project” was a great idea. The ultimate “metapolitical jackpot” was figuring out how to reconcile all sorts of [...]
#11. Augustus
Rome Watch these videos. Think of it as a tutorial in symbolic power and legitimacy. That is a glimpse of greatness. This is presence. Wonks, you know you are really excited [...]