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For the New Right, so-called “conservatives” have been willful or witless dupes of the left for decades. In contemporary terms, examples include Mitt Romney delivering to Massachusetts what would become the basis for Obamacare, President Bush appointing David Souter to the Supreme Court, and John McCain sponsoring campaign finance “reform.”

Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics

This is contrary to what both Scripture and experience teach us about human nature. The purpose of civilization, in Deneen’s words, “has been to sustain and support familial, social and cultural structures and practices that perpetuate and deepen personal and intergenerational forms of obligation and gratitude, of duty and indebtedness.”

Rod Dreher • The Benedict Option

Tech people are not interested in appeals to virtue or beauty or tradition, like most conservatives,” the State Department official said. “They are more like right-wing progressives, and for a long time Moldbug was the only person speaking to them this way.”

Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America

Almost any disconnection of people from organic community leads to extremism and anger—no matter the place on the ideological spectrum.

Russell D. Moore • Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America

For the purposes of this chapter, there are two definitions of identity politics. The first is the effort to secure the rights denied to some on the basis of their identity—defensive identity politics. The second is that which seeks domination on the basis of identity—aggressive identity politics. This chapter will focus on identity politics along

Nesrine Malik • We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom

But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s... See more

Matt Taibbi • The American Press Is Destroying Itself - Reporting by Matt Taibbi

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Stan Guthrie • A Toxic New Religion: Understanding the Postmodern, Neo-Marxist Faith that Seeks to Destroy the Judeo-Christian Culture of the West

Liberalism’s old hegemony has ended but not yet been replaced by a new worldview. To command majority support, politics has to start with what most people value: family, friendship, locality, community and country.

Adrian Pabst • Postliberal Politics: The Coming Era of Renewal

Protest is one of the basic acts of citizenship, and in some contexts (for example, the civil rights movement) it’s an expression of faith in the power of democratic institutions to bring change—the vigilance of a free press, the impartiality of the law, the conscience or self-interest of elected officials, the movability of public opinion. But the