Australian Establicons: Intentional Blindness is a Virtue
One could be forgiven for thinking that we have entered a new phase of collective political stupidity, where our national ‘leaders’ seem committed to manage –…
M. W. Davis
Won’t Someone Please Think of the Cancer?
The phrase ‘I’m only intolerant of intolerance’ seems as silly as ‘the only thing we have to fear is fear itself’. They’re both sort of…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part V: Distributism
The final essay in this series will address the question of government. And, of course, more will be left unsaid than said thereby: we’ve not…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part IV: Natural Rights
“I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.” — Robert Frost One of the most…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part III: Carl Jung
As to the previous essay on Existentialism, it could be surmised that man’s obligation to construct meaning in his own life is limited only to…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part II: Existentialism
I. Introduction If we’re going to tackle the Frankfurt School, we ought to understand their ideas. In order to understand their ideas, we have to…
Essays on the Frankfurt School, Part I: Cultural Marxism
The Right-Wing Slogan of the Year for 2013 was Smash Cultural Marxism (followed shortly by Anti-Racist is a Code Word for Anti-White). It’s unclear if…
Pied Noir
¶ When Venner shot himself Jean and I went to see Papa because we knew he’d be a wreck. When we made it to the house…
Classicism: Its Theory and Practice
I. The Question Anyone possessed with a literary enthusiasm has read a poem written in the last half-century or so that made them wince with…