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Trump and his online followers might be better at social media than the clunky corporate press, but he and his team would not be able to out-Washington Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan. So if there’s someone who the New Right admires almost without hesitation or qualification, it’s not Donald Trump.
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
Love and generous perception are mutually reinforcing. Adopting a posture of love toward others leads us to see them positively;
Shai Held • Judaism Is About Love: Recovering the Heart of Jewish Life
Taki claimed he wanted to “shake up the stodgy world of so-called ‘conservative’ opinion,”1 which is pretty blatant code for “We’re the opposite of National Review.”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
policies.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
his fundamental conviction has remained constant: the horrors of late twentieth-century life, whether Nazi, communist, racist, nationalist, or utilitarian in expression, are the products of defective concepts of the human person.
George Weigel • Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II
At the Freedom School, Charles became particularly enamored of the work of two laissez-faire economists, the Austrian theorist Ludwig von Mises and his star pupil, Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian exile, who visited the Freedom School. Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom had become an improbable best seller in 1944, after Reader’s Digest published a conde
... See moreJane Mayer • Dark Money
God doesn’t stand for a leader who is doing things his own way, disregarding the good of the people, betraying the God of the universe, and seeking selfish gain.
Tara-Leigh Cobble • The Bible Recap: A One-Year Guide to Reading and Understanding the Entire Bible
The oldest conflict in American politics is the one between individualism and centralism. Reagan changed the terms by inverting them: the descendants of Jefferson’s yeoman farmers, with their desire for independence, became sturdy car-company executives and investment bankers yearning to breathe free of big government. The heirs of Hamilton’s arist
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.