H.L. Mencken, Nietzsche and the Culture War
The Übermensch of Baltimore tore down America’s Victorian culture
Philosophy
The Young Intellectuals and Nietzsche
H.L. Mencken, Emma Goldman and the Young Intellectuals Americanized Nietzsche’s philosophy
Is Nietzsche The Answer?
No, Nietzsche is part of the problem
Nietzsche’s Insanity, Oscar Wilde’s Aestheticism and Modernism
In the Modern Age, religion and ethics takes a backseat to aesthetics and psychology
Heralds of Modernism
Darwin, Baudelaire and Nietzsche paved the road to Modernism
The Revolt of the Elites
Modernist intellectuals answered Nietzsche’s call to declare war on the masses
Enemies of Enlightenment
How did the Enlightenment succumb to Romanticism?
Isaiah Berlin: Romanticism – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin on the Enlightenment and Romanticism
The Reactionary Revolution
Conservative liberalism is waning in the face of brutal facts
The Tory Tradition
The Tory conservative tradition offers an alternative to Whig derived conservatism
Patrick Deneen: Liberalism Has Failed
Patrick Deneen and Jonah Goldberg debate whether liberalism has failed
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Conservative Principle
Free society is a state “of dissolution and thaw” and “demoralization and transition”
Response to Thomas Main
In abolishing itself, liberalism has freed us to imagine a new order
Intro To Woke Supremacy
What is Critical Social Justice Theory?
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on The Declaration of Independence and Virginia Bill of Rights
The principles of the Declaration of Independence are at war with all governance
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh on Religion and Philosophy
Stable governments are not based on abstract liberal ideals
What Is The Third Position?
Keith Woods explains Third Positionism
American History Series: The Southern Revolution of 1861
What is the “successor ideology” to liberalism on the Right?
Can We Ally With The Left?
The short answer is no
The Totalitarian Nature of Liberalism
Liberalism has defined nationalism as its greatest enemy
The Limits of Reason
Instrumental reason has led to a sterile culture
Morgoth’s Review: On Heidegger & The Metaphysics Of Whisky
Winter is the coziest month of the year
Review: Return of the Strong Gods
A book review of Rusty Reno’s Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism and the Future of the West
The Remains of Liberalism
Professor Christoph Möllers delivers the Leibniz lecture on liberalism and the rise of global authoritarianism
The Postwar Consensus
In the aftermath of World War II, the intellectual elite of the West began to dissolve its own foundations
Mencius Moldbug: The Clear Pill (Part 1)
Mencius Moldbug is back with a new pill
First Things: The Outsider
First Things takes a look at the life and political thought of Sam Francis
National Affairs: Liberal Practice vs. Liberal Theory
Liberalism is on the ropes. Will it go down to the mat?
Sohrab Ahmari: The New American Right
Sohrab Ahmari articulates his vision of a post-liberal Right
Michael Brendan Dougherty: For Liberality, Against Parsimonious Liberalism
Michael Brendan Dougherty points out that many of the Founding Fathers were classical republicans
Southern History Series: Thomas Carlyle’s Influence on George Fitzhugh
According to Thomas Carlyle, liberalism naturally weakens and degenerates the social fabric by driving “assiduous wedges” in every joint of social existence
Southern History Series: George Fitzhugh Attacks Liberalism
In the 1850s, Southern political theorist George Fitzhugh attacks the philosophical foundations of Northern liberalism and free-market capitalism