Maverick Philosopher

Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Decline of the West

  • 2024: The Year of Reckoning

    Victor Davis Hanson explains why. Are you ready?  Or are you a pollyanna like the foolish Israeli woman who didn't see or want to see what was coming and easily predictable?

  • Ruling Class Banana Republicans

    Rod Dreher.  Includes this nifty graphic from an IBM DEI indoctrination session:

  • Rod Dreher on Bergoglio’s Latest Termitic Outrage

    Decline and fall is the way of the world. It's our turn now as institution after institution is captured by wokeassery and termitry. Sodomy in the Senate and among prelates. The presidency of a 'wokified' but unqualified plagiarist at Harvard. The huge numbers of destructive leftists and their usefully idiotic fellow travellers who support a…

  • Is the Enlightenment the Problem?

    This is a redacted repost from 21 June 2015. In the subsequent eight years, we in the West are 'infinitely' worse off than before.  Time to re-visit the topic and re-assess. Mournful was the tocsin Malcolm Pollack sounded in 2015; what must its sound be today? ……………………….. Malcolm laments via e-mail: Don't things seem to…

  • The ‘Reel’ Truth about George Floyd

    Here Tony Flood chimes in: Jesse's interview with Liz Collins: https://www.foxnews.com/video/6341513639112 Jesse's excerpt from Collin's new documentary The Fall of Minneapolis: https://www.foxnews.com/media/jesse-watters-george-floyd-story-very-different-depending-on-who-you-talk-to   Here's the book the film is based on: https://www.amazon.com/Theyre-Lying-Media-Death-George/dp/B0BKS611C6/   When Crump, Floyd's attorney, said his client was a healthy man, he lied (or didn't know what he was talking about, take your pick).…

  • Up on the Roof

    Not "The Drifters" version. Given the pronounced 'libertine wobble' of leftists, it is passing strange that they would support Islamists who are anti-libertine and anti-liberal in excelsis.  The loons of the Left appear to have lost their minds so much so  that they care not whether they lose their heads.   Tony Flood, who sent me…

  • Wolff on Israel

    Robert Paul Wolff, 30 October 2023: I have found the series of comments on the Israeli situation interesting and helpful. I have not responded to them because I am so upset by what is happening that I can barely watch the news reports of it anymore. Let me make one small observation. There has been…

  • Why the Jews are Constantly Getting Slaughtered

    Here

  • Billionaire Donors Withholding Loot from Leftist Seminaries

    Long-time donors are finally waking up to the wokeassery* of once-great universities that have for decades been transmogrifying into leftist seminaries. ('Seminary' is etymologically related to 'semen' and in the seminaries in question the origin of the jism is masturbatory: nothing productive comes from these seed beds.) I predicted the donor revolt on 13 October…

  • Premodern Diversity versus Civilizational Unity

    We appear to be doomed.  A history lesson from Victor Davis Hanson.

  • The State of Things When the ‘Leader’ of the ‘Free World’ is a Puppet

    I asked Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, whether Donald Trump's being in office would have made any difference to the present geopolitical mess, and this is what he wrote: As for the present miserable state of the world, I think that had Trump remained in office neither the war in the Ukraine nor the war in…

  • Rod Dreher on Leftism

    Here: What a clarifying moment this is in the West. We have all seen the jaw-dropping alacrity with which so many leftists, especially within the academy, have rushed to defend the Hamas storm troopers. If you think this is merely about Israel and Hamas, you need to wake up. The people who are celebrating the…

  • When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them

    Bari Weiss: Here you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering “gas the Jews” and “death to the Jews.” People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of Berlin and London and Toronto and New York. (Scroll down to read our Free Press dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.) At our most prestigious universities there is silence from administrations that leapt to speak…

  • The Lapse of Laïcité: Cause and Effect

    Substack leader. In this entry I unpack what I consider to be a brilliant insight of Finkielkraut. Alain Finkielkraut: Laicity is the solution that modern Europe found in order to escape its religious civil wars. But contemporary Europe doesn’t take religion seriously enough to know how to stick to this solution. She has exiled faith…

  • How Long Can We Last?

    Historian Hanson wrote in January of 2022:  In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it.  Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities.…