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For once, I agree with John Zmirak: it is the strength of our communities that makes the West worth fighting for, not our capacity to produce wealth or love of universal reason. This is why activities...
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This is amusing: My point is that it’s counterproductive to use such arguments– that it has socially toxic side effects, and WILL NOT WORK. Instead, I offer arguments against the same government...
View ArticleDefinition of Conservatism
At TakiMag, commentator Leon Haller presents an unorthodox definition of conservatism that is indistinguishable from hard communitarianism: Conservatism may be defined (OK, roughly) as “the disposition...
View Article$4 gas helping revitalize small towns
It costs around $24 dollars now to travel round trip from Comer to Montgomery; $16 from Eufaula to Dothan or Columbus. A year ago, the price was half that. If intrastate commerce is breaking down,...
View ArticlePlaces
I’m currently enjoying Kunstler’s The Geography of Nowhere. Here’s an excerpt: This is quite an extraordinary thing. It can only be possible where people feel no connection or allegiance to their...
View ArticleDiversity, Car Culture, Urban Areas
The second installment in this series. I want to deal with the bad first, the good second. The second topic on my list: America’s car culture, suburban sprawl, and its unlivable, unwalkable...
View ArticleAgainst Libertarianism
This is the eighth installment in this series. Lately, I have spoken to a number of budding racialists about their background, and I was surprised to discover the sheer number of them who came out of...
View ArticleWhite Communities
White Preservationist has an ambitious plan to create White Nationalist colonies throughout the United States. These colonies would disengage from the American mainstream as far as possible:...
View ArticleRace and Conservatism
Conservatism: Lately, the term has been weighing heavily on me. Searching my thoughts, I find that I have two mindsets on the subject. There is the phony American conservative movement that we are all...
View ArticleLoss of neighborliness is root of our problems
Environmentalist Bill McKibben published an excerpt of his book on Alternet about how Americans don’t need their neighbors any more. In the halcyon days of the final economic booms, everyone on your...
View ArticleObama-coms
The Iraq War is only the final straw in a long train of indignities that we have suffered at the hands of the conservative movement. What exactly is conservatism? Have conservatives preserved any...
View ArticleCan White Nationalism Be Reformed?
Amitai Etizioni has some thoughts about racially conscious whites in America (more like the backlash against conservatism). I’m confident that White Nationalism can be reformed along communitarian...
View ArticleIs America’s suburban dream collapsing into a nightmare?
Some nasty predictions about suburbia are coming true. Yandell’s marriage isn’t falling apart: his neighborhood is. Devastated by the subprime mortgage crisis, hundreds of homes have been foreclosed...
View ArticleHome From Nowhere
Such a great excerpt: Community, as it once existed in the form of places worth caring about, supported by local economies, has been extirpated by an insidious corporate colonialism that doesn’t care...
View ArticleSelf Ownership
At Townhall.com, John Stossel repeats the myth of absolute self ownership. Independent of that harm, adults ought to own our own bodies, so it’s not intellectually honest to argue that “only marijuana”...
View ArticleCar Culture
Richard Spencer writes: It’s Primitivism Lite, a more presentable version of the fantasy that one day the modern world will finally collapse and we’ll all be whole again. 1.) There is nothing primitive...
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