Showing posts with label Leviathan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Leviathan. Show all posts

Monday, May 24, 2021

The DS Is Getting Ready

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Indeed

It's Washington's Birthday, Not Presidents' Day by Gleaves Whitney


Washington vs. Lincoln by Brion McClanahan
Abraham Lincoln and George Washington stare silently at one another across the reflecting pool on the National Mall in Washington D.C., their paths inextricably linked by the historians who consider both to be the greatest… »


Russell Kirk wasn't right about everything... Abraham Lincoln and the Dignity of the Presidency

Sunday, November 13, 2016

Rod Dreher Should Read Sam Francis

But he probably won't. At least he's reading John Cuddeback. He wrote this last Monday: Politics, Family, & the Benedict Option

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Clyde Wilson on Sam Francis

Eleven Years After His Death, Sam Francis Speaks On The Current Crisis Of The Elite

Leviathan and Its Enemies: Mass Organization and Managerial Power in Twentieth-Century America (Washington Summit Publishers)

Related:
Sam Francis on the Roots of Liberal Hegemony by F. Roger Devlin

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Thursday, August 11, 2016

The New Star Trek Series Will Be Worse Than Voyager?

Star Trek Goes Full SJW

Then again Gene Roddenberry was a secular humanist and would probably uphold a centralized p9litical authority enforcing his liberal values. A SJW before there were SJWs.

Thursday, July 07, 2016

Citizen Soldier

The National Guard: not the militia of the free states assumed by the Founding Fathers. Maybe the filmmakers were well-meaning, but this is propaganda for the National Government as well if the use of the National Guard for imperial wars is depicted as being legitimate.



Fandango

Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Whence This Change?

Alasdair MacIntyre: From Socratic Subverter to Supporter of the State by Thaddeus Kozinski

While I disagree with Kozinski regarding the American founding and the tenets of the Anglo-American political tradition, the centralization of political and economic power has transformed the original federal republic or federation of states into a unitary nation-state, more or less. The power of the Federal government (and that of many of the states arguably) is problematic, to say the least.

According to Kozinski's summary, MacIntyre was not talking about the legitimacy of the use of coercive power in an abstract manner (that is, a discussion of the state's authority proper to the exposition of the practical science of politics) but making claims about the responsibilities of the modern nation-state. (I haven't watched the lecture yet and probably won't be able to do so for a while.) Maybe this change isn't so surprising since MacIntyre did support the American with Disabilities Act and necessarily the power of the Federal Government (in Dependent Rational Animals, I believe).



Someone should write a sustained critique of Charles Taylor on modernity and liberal democracy (as philosophy or as intellectual history)?
Charles Taylor on Secular Democracy







Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

But then the author praises Elon Musk

Otherwise it's something alt left and alt right could agree on: Breaking Up With the Corporate Duopoly of Democracy by Nozomi Hayase

Too much love of technology, not enough consideration for limits of energy supplies?

Thursday, April 07, 2016

Vox Day: Mississippi Stands Firm

"Round Two is coming. I don't know which issue will set it off yet, but it's increasingly obvious that Round Two is on the horizon. There is no nation any longer, and the sooner the various nations inside the USA go their separate ways, preferably in peace."

Stay and fight in suburbia? Leave for a state that is more in line with what one believes? Or move to another part of California where the conservatives live and hunker down with them? How many of the smug and the affluent who live and live the illusion that is Silicon Valley are in a mental state in which they can convert to a serious, traditional form of Christianity? And then there are the immigrants, legal and illegal...

And then there is the Freight and Salvage in Berkeley -- must of the audience members are boomers or close to them in age. As for donors? Some businesses, but a lot of private individuals, too -- are they also boomers or close to them in age? What will happen to the Freight once demographic reality catches up? How are businesses going to be able to justify a donation to the Freight and Salvage, which favors overwhelmingly forms of music that are not appreciated by non-whites? (A few exceptions here and there on the calendar, but a few.) Will they change their programming? Or will the Freight simply close?

It is probable that many of the patrons are also SJW leftists who congratulate themselves for their leftist/multiculturalist orthodoxy. Little do they know that they've killed any sort of musical legacy that they would have liked to see continue in Berkeley.

Related:
The Unitary State of America by John Seiler

America boasts of its “federalism,” that the 50 states (originally 13) still are “free and independent,” as the Declaration of Independence proclaimed. The country’s name, the United States, is plural.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Come Core Propaganda

Nasreen's Secret School

Are Muslim women allowed to study the Koran? If so, then Islam is to opposed to literacy for women in general, it just regulates what they can read -- no anti-Islam or Western propaganda that might lead them astray.