Category: Decline of the West
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Naomi Wolf on the Return of the Demons
Over the last three years, many of us who are naturally and by training skeptical of supernatural explanations have wondered whether the astonishing upsurge of irrationality and outright evil society-wide and, most depressingly, in the institutions that ought to serve as bulwarks against this madness, may be due to demonic influence. For the scale of…
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How Low Can We Sink?
Seen at SOTU 2023 as worn by Senator Ed Markey, Massachusetts Democrat: For a long time now, the Democrats have been the abortion party. But under the 'leadership' of the 'devout Catholic,' Joe Biden, they've 'evolved' to use the Hillary word which means devolved: they now celebrate abortion by expressing 'love' for it. And…
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Down with Tobacco, Up with Marijuana
Why down with the first (I allude to the menthol cigarette ban) and up with the second? Why the differential treatment and the misplaced moral enthusiasm? The locoweed I smoked with band members in the late '60s was tame stuff, poor in tetrahydrocannabinol as compared to the potent THC-rich product on the market today. Since…
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Reckless Reparations Reckoning
Another episode in Victor Davis Hanson's chronicling of our wanky descent into unhinged Unsinn. Here is a choice morsel: Current racial tribalization obsessions have descended into a nadir that makes Al Sharpton’s 1990s Tawana Brawley/Crown-Heights career start (“If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my…
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2024 and Trump sub specie aeternitatis
First-rate political analysis by DiploMad 2.0. (HT: Bill Keezer) But there is little to be hopeful or happy about this New Year. 2023 is likely to be worse than the last three. You are well-advised to seek your happiness within. Not that one should withdraw from the fray entirely. Fight on, but not at the…
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Lousy Teachers
They unwittingly gave me the confidence that I could do what they do, and indeed do it better, but they also deprived me of the intellectual formation that I had to spend years developing on my own. They set me forward, and they set me back. To cheat students is bad enough; to corrupt them…
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Civilizational Collapse: The Case of NYC
The Big Apple is now rotten to the core, thanks to 'progressives.' There is no wisdom on the Left, no common sense, no basic decency. Cal Thomas: The exodus of New Yorkers for less expensive and safer climes has been well documented. In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 300,000 residents left New York…
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As We Slide into the Abyss . . .
. . . the thought that demonic agents are at work behind the scenes becomes ever more credible. Or do you think that the depth of human depravity has an adequate naturalistic explanation? Our moral trajectory is decidedly downward. Anyone who is not morally obtuse can see that. Rod Dreher is a good source of…
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Rod Dreher
Dreher's right about a lot of things despite his TDS. But who among us is wholly free of faults, foibles, and fatuities? Read on: The United States is a country where we castrate young males and cut the breasts off of young females, and call it liberation. We are a country where it is considered…
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Ethnomasochism
Rod Dreher on The Racial Masochism of the Left: Where does the Left and all its institutional allies — which is to say, every major institution in American life — plan to go with this? Do they really believe that all whites, Asians, and Latinos can be trained to accept brutality from black criminals? Do…
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It is 410 A. D.
Alaric is sacking Rome. An obscure Roman philosopher is penning an agenda for the salvation of the republic. His writings are lost to history. In any case, too little, too late. Will we share his fate? Three years after the Visigoth invasion, a Christian Platonist and mystic in North Africa puts pen to paper. As…
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The ‘Equity’ President
'Equity' is wokespeak for equality of outcome without regard for merit or qualifications. In Joe Biden, the demented have finally a representative at the highest level of government in the greatest nation the world has ever seen. Who can deny that this is progress? To question it would be discriminatory and ableist.
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Why Tulsi Gabbard is Leaving the Democrat Party and Why You Should Too
Here at Substack. HT: Anthony Flood. Full text follows. Please propagate. Do your bit to restore some sanity to this country and to the world. Why I'm leaving the Democratic Party Tulsi Gabbard I love our country. Our God-given rights of freedom, life, and liberty enshrined in our Constitution and Bill of Rights are…
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A Secret Plan to Destroy America
Malcolm Pollack recommends the following. I've reproduced it verbatim. It is that good. …………………………. Democrat and former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm gave the following speech in Washington, DC in 2003. Originally published on CAIRCO in 2014. I have a secret plan to destroy America. If you believe, as many do, that America is too smug,…