Saturday, May 05, 2018

Friday, May 04, 2018

Abbeville: How the Neocons Destroyed Southern Conservatism by Boyd Cathey
No discussion of Southern conservatism, its history and its relationship to what is termed broadly the “American conservative movement” would be complete without an examination of events that have transpired over the past fifty years… »

Thursday, May 03, 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018

G17

Still Cucking!

How deracinated do you have to be to learn about tribalism from the Tiger Mom who married a Pharisee? He still laments the rise of white identitarianism and wishes that everyone could just get along in some grand civic nationalist project.

A Time Of Tribalism by Rod Dreher

Someone should do a write-up on the empowered, high-achieving Asian female and her marriage to a presumably milquetoast Pharisee.

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations





What sort of united political front can the Roman Catholic churches really offer?

Crisis: Christian Passivity is Not an Option by Stephen Baskerville

Mr. Baskerville overestimates the power of the Latin churches. The Latin churches, severely compromised on issues such as gun control, feminism, multiculturalism, egalitarianism, immigration, and statism, can offer no resistance to the attacks of the state on other issues. They have been too complicit too long in the state's destruction of traditional norms.

Including Christendom College

The Soros-Funded Attacks on Orthodox Catholic Universities by Austin Ruse

Is NCReg sorry to have hired Simcha Fisher now? Catholic men have been too nice and the problem of entryism has taken hold in all of their institutions.

Sunday, April 29, 2018

The Second Millenium Papacy Is a Problem


Allan Carlson Reviews Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed

The Last Ideology by Allan Carlson

Carlson gives some good reasons for thinking that the state will not allow alternative communities to exist in peace but will eventually attempt to repress or impose leftist controls on them. But then the alternatives Carlson offers would seem to require an even broader scale to be successful. How can these be alternatives if they are even less likely?

Friday, April 27, 2018

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Paramount Network

Another network? How long has it been around? Ah, I see that it used to be Spike. Yellowstone has Kevin Costner and it might be good.

Judging Much?

Rod Dreher:

Once my wife and I were shown a house we were thinking of renting. As we walked through it with the agent, we could see that the family living there at the time were very conservative homeschooling Catholics. You could tell by the art on the wall and the books on their shelves. Normally this would have encouraged me, but the more time we spent at the house, the more the place struck me as a factory for manufacturing either totally docile conformists, or anti-Christian rebels. The parents seemed to take the moral and spiritual formation of their children seriously, but also seemed to think that the only way to form faithful Catholic children is to keep them from seeing, reading, or listening to anything that’s not the product of an extremely narrow, rigid, dessicated, and sentimental piety.

They created a “safe space” for their children, but I doubt very much that they created a “good space,” in the sense of a space in which the kids could refine their human desires and learn how to guide them to good ends — this, as opposed to learning how to deny those desires entirely. Goodness is not the absence of sin any more than peace is the absence of war. Brave New World presents not the same kind of dystopia as 1984, but it still depicts an inhuman tyranny.

Are there homeschooling families who are not raising their children properly and are sheltering them too much? Probably. But is it so easy to tell from their home, as opposed to the behavior?