The Bowtie Strikes Back

The Bowtie Strikes Back

A major contributing factor to the rise of the new right is the total regulatory capture of purported conservative watchdogs by the Leftist media. The great sellout started with William F. Buckley, whose main job at National Review was making sure actual conservatives were replaced with quisling pod people like George…
June 23, 201813 Comments
Tradpub Death Spasm

Tradpub Death Spasm

Tradpub is dying, but a mortally wounded beast's death throes can be dangerous, as best selling author Lionel Shriver (pictured) discovered to her sorrow. James Delingpole reports: Publishing giant Penguin Random House has announced that its authors are no longer to be chosen on literary merit but according to a…
June 22, 201812 Comments
Dragon Con Fires SJW

Dragon Con Fires SJW

In a refreshing turn of events, the Dragon Con admins appear to have learned from their past mistakes. Author Jon Del Arroz has the story: Dragon Con faced a quiet coup attempt by their Literary Track head named Charlotte Stromborn. She was originally in charge of Anne McCaffrey’s Pern track…
June 11, 20189 Comments
The Two Rulebooks

The Two Rulebooks

As a follow up to my recent post about a Catholic wonk struggling to comprehend the cultural and spiritual forces arrayed against the Church and the West, reader Xavier passes along an example of a Catholic blogger who's starting to get it. Wherein Fr. Z contemplates how the Left wins…
June 7, 201814 Comments
With the Cunning of Satan

With the Cunning of Satan

Purple prose polemicist Razörfist shoots down the commie fabrication of "Tail Gunner Joe" as an  inquisitorial bully who led a political witch hunt against innocent Americans. From the transcript [NSFW language]: Joe McCarthy, the man whose theatrics, hard-drinking, and self-destructive accusations once led President Truman to describe him as quote,…
June 5, 20187 Comments
Catholic Wonkery

Catholic Wonkery

...Culture War Edition. Wherein Catholic Wonk Dr. Taylor Marshall attempts to advise Catholics how to win the culture war by writing exactly the kind of article that's been losing Catholics the culture war. First up, there's no clearer mark of a commenter who has his finger on the pulse of…
May 25, 201841 Comments
They Get It

They Get It

Reader anonme proves that wise men only speak when they have something to say in this comment on yesterday's post: I generally stay out of your essays on liberty, freedom, individuals et al, but I'll chime in briefly. I've long had a theory that you have abandoned conventional politics, instead…
May 3, 201827 Comments
I’ve Never Met an Individual

I’ve Never Met an Individual

Conservatives and Libertarians continue to volunteer evidence for my assertion that their empty posing and incoherent ideologies are standing athwart attempts to stop the Left's destruction of the West. Exhibit A: Conservative reader Nate Winchester's comments on the relative effectiveness of appeals to reason and emotion. There's two catches. The…
May 2, 201810 Comments
Individualism Is Kill

Individualism Is Kill

Having consistently pointed out that individualism is a noxious acid eating away at the social bonds, family ties, and institutions of the West, I was pleased when a Libertarian ideologue showed up in my Twitter feed to provide a wealth of colorful examples. Radical individualists' white-knuckled clinging to their self-contradictory…
May 1, 201835 Comments
Dragon Energy

Dragon Energy

A+ list rapper Kanye West coming out as a Trump supporter perfectly demonstrates the crucial importance of retaking cultural ground, which Conservatives have been ignoring for decades. You can tell that Kanye's Trumpism has struck a massive blow to the Left's cultural hegemony by their unhinged reaction to his escape…
April 27, 201815 Comments