Not Post-Industrial
It’s taken as a given among educated Westerners that Western nations are ‘post-industrial economies’ — meaning that employment in industry as a proportion of the population has declined and will...
View ArticleThe ‘Wake-Up’ Moment is Total Destruction
History is full of dead civilizations. Few apart from a few archaeologists much cares about who the Etruscans were or what gods they worshiped, but the Etruscans mattered a lot to the Etruscans before...
View ArticleWhy Kill the GOP?
Jonathan Capehart at the Washington Post writes that the rise of populist oligarch Donald Trump spells the death of the GOP — and laments that as something regrettable, because at least two viable...
View ArticleLiberals Horrified by Co-Ed
One of the top stories at the Washington Post website today is about a rape trial at St. Paul’s, one of the most prestigious boarding high schools in the US. The details of the case don’t really matter...
View ArticleTraining a Bureaucratic Population
Mass education of populations, originally developed as a means of improving the military readiness of the population in an era of mass conscription, has developed into a tool for the preparation of...
View ArticleHumane, Egalitarian Terror
In an egalitarian world in which authority expects everyone to consider themselves the moral equals of everyone else on the planet, what critics call ‘pathological altruism’ is actually entirely...
View ArticleThe European ‘Refugee Crisis’ Is Funny
The reason why it’s funny is because the tired, hungry, greedy masses are just calling Europe’s bluff about universal human rights — which includes universal pensions for everyone, free housing...
View ArticleJohn Brown and #BlackLivesMatter
John Brown was a terrorist who hoped to incite broader slave rebellions within the Southern states. One of the reasons why his acts were politically significant was because his actions were condoned...
View ArticleThe Nation-State Undermines Itself
The nation-state grew in power and popularity from the 17th century onward owing to its gradual conquest of the historical roles of religion, family, and civil society. That much is beyond dispute....
View ArticleReihan Salam On the Way the Wind Blows
Reihan Salam recently put out a remarkable article in Salon about the rise of white nationalism. Does Donald Trump represent the ascendancy of white nationalism on the American right? I’m skeptical,...
View ArticleWorship of the Other
Lawrence Auster understood the link between liberalism and the seemingly irrational waves of sympathy towards third world peoples which seems to overwhelm so many Europeans today. According to...
View ArticleJobs the Educated Won’t Do
One of the consequences of mass education is that it sets expectations among graduates and the rest of the society that they will become symbolic workers — people charged with manipulating symbols and...
View ArticleRevenge of the Rest Against the West
Having ascended to the height of the world for some brief thousands of years (with a long, muddling interlude in the middle), the West finds itself on the back foot against its more numerous...
View ArticleHow to Stop Conservative Demagoguery
Conor Friedersdorf is the Atlantic’s resident right-leaning columnist. He wants you to know how problematic the conservative movement has become. Conor has done a good job bringing up the faults of...
View ArticleThe Global South Marches On the Global North
It used to be that you had to fly all the way to Africa to get the perfect selfie. Some time in the near future (and in the present within many cities throughout the Western world) there’ll be no...
View ArticleAlexander Hamilton On Immigration As Trojan Horse
From a commentary on Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia: The United States have already felt the evils of incorporating a large number of foreigners into their national mass by promoting in different...
View ArticlePopular Government Is Active Government
Drawing support from the great masses of the people, a popular politician needs to be continually in the public eye. One of the ways that he does this is by passing legislation, implementing projects,...
View ArticleWhy They Sent Ahmed To Juvie
Effete technicians and tech-bubble speculators everywhere are angry that a Muslim teenager in Texas was arrested for bringing a circuit board to school. Ahmed Mohamed is a maker in the making. A young...
View ArticleDrones Are Weapons for Individualists
Pacifistic liberals and libertarians (who are a subset of liberals) tend to decry America’s unique and novel campaign of drone bombing against Islamic terrorists. This method was explicitly chosen to...
View ArticleZIRP Forever
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that they would not be hiking rates. Expectations as to what the Fed would do flipped following the stock market crashes in China, which bled over to American...
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