Category: Decline of the West
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The Decivilizing of America
Another outstanding article by VDH. If you read this blog you will most likely agree with it. But then why do I link to it? To supply you with argumentative ammo. In a war you cannot have too much ammo.
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Pope Francis Dead at 88
I have issued some trenchant statements over the years about the late Pope Francis, but for now my watchword is: de mortuis nil nisi bonum. I will only add that in the wee hours of yesterday's vigil, before I became aware of Francis's passing, I was re-reading Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's 1968 Introduction to Christianity in…
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Politics by Assassination, Anyone?
Von Clausewitz held that war is politics pursued by other means. What I call the Converse Clausewitz Principle holds equally: politics is war pursued by other means. David Horowitz, commenting on "Politics is war conducted by other means," writes: In political warfare you do not just fight to prevail in an argument, but rather to destroy…
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MACGA: Make the Continent Great Again!
Europe has lost its collective mind. The UK is especially troubling: The University of Oxford, one of the most revered and historic institutions of higher learning in the world, has requested that Oxford city council officials add the names of five soldiers who fought against Great Britain in the First World War to a memorial honoring…
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The Message of Visible Tattoos
Top o' the Stack. Me? I sport no tattoos and never will. My dress is functional and tailored to the needs of the occasion. No one could accuse me of being a Sharp-Dressed Man
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If Trump Wins, the Left is Prepared to Intensify the War
Yesterday's Substack entry ended as follows: Whatever the outcome on 5 November, the war will continue, intensify, and become increasingly ‘existential.’ That is to say: it will become less verbal, less cultural, [i.e., less like a mere culture war'] hotter, and more like a real war. The conflict unto death in which we are currently…
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Elon Musk: If Trump loses, 2024 will be our last election
Here. The title claim begins at 3:05. His explanation of the claim is cogent, and I fear he is right. 'Interesting' times, these. Who could be bored? UPDATE 10/28: Elon at the Trump MSG rally.
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Kamala the Destroyer
Tom Klingenstein understands what's going on: Republicans criticize Kamala Harris for refusing to reveal her agenda, but, as Frank Cannon points out, she already has. Her agenda is the agenda of her vice-presidential pick, Governor Tim Walz of Minnesota — someone Harris “ loves,” as she said recently. Unlike Kamala, Walz’s agenda and his beliefs…
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Moral Community and Civil War
Substack latest. An exchange with Malcolm Pollack.
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The 2020 Theft Saved the Country
The argument of this article goes through even if the 2020 election was not stolen from Trump. Biden's reversal of Trump's good works has exposed the thoroughly depredatory nature of our political enemies and has galvanized Trump and his supporters. The Orange Man has learned a lot in the interim. First-rate ass-kickers have joined his…
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The Road to One-Party Rule
Here is the Democrat plan clearly explained in a few words.
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9/11: 23 Years Later
Substack latest
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The Treason of the Clerics
Rod Dreher: It’s a hell of a thing to realize that the leader of the one institution responsible more than any other for creating Western civilization — the Roman Catholic Church — is now actively working to dismantle that very civilization by opening the city gates, so to speak, wide to the invaders. What do…
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Trotsky’s (Misplaced) Faith in Man
On 20 August 1940, 84 years ago today, the long arm of Joseph Stalin finally reached Leon Trotsky in exile in Mexico City where an agent of Stalin drove an ice axe into Trotsky's skull. He died the next day. Yet another proof of how the Left eats its own. The last days of Lev…
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Israel: Leader of the Free World
For eight decades after the end of World War II, America’s proudest title was “Leader of the Free World.” Today, both on grounds of practical leadership and grasp of what it means to be free, we are yielding the title to Israel. George Gilder makes the case, and a strong case it is.