Episodes

Sunday May 08, 2022
A Gallop in Ethiopia: Wax, Gold & the Abyssinian Pony (Yves-Marie Stranger)
Sunday May 08, 2022
Sunday May 08, 2022
Of Ethiopia—mostly of modern Ethiopia, a fascinating country. But what role is it likely to play in the future?
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Sunday May 01, 2022
The Managerial Revolution: What is Happening in the World (James Burnham)
Sunday May 01, 2022
Sunday May 01, 2022
The good, the bad, and the ugly about James Burnham's famous 1941 book.
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Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
Wednesday Apr 27, 2022
An analysis of Traditionalism, the set of beliefs offered by thinkers (from René Guénon to Julius Evola) who attempted to retrieve supposed ancient wisdom and apply it to the modern world. (This article was first published November 30, 2018.)
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Monday Apr 18, 2022
Fitzpatrick’s War (Theodore Judson)
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
Through the lens of a prophetic work of fiction, continuing the question of whether civilizational decline can be arrested and reversed, and thinking about the moral implications of actions related to that endeavor.
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Monday Apr 04, 2022
Monday Apr 04, 2022
A review that in effect passes judgment on all modern science fiction, with a slightly different tack from my usual. (This article was first published August 23, 2016.)
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Thursday Mar 31, 2022
The Fate of Empires (John Bagot Glubb)
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
Thursday Mar 31, 2022
A famous, but at best incomplete, analysis of the course of empires--with an emphasis on describing the end stages of empires.
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Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
Tuesday Mar 29, 2022
It was as a result of this discussion, of Three New Deals, that my program came to be called Foundationalism. And here, learning from movements of the past, I offer thoughts about how Foundationalism can be brought to pass (although I would be less negative about small-scale farming now; this article was first published November 26, 2018.)
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Monday Feb 28, 2022
On the Marble Cliffs (Ernst Jünger)
Monday Feb 28, 2022
Monday Feb 28, 2022
The third book in Jünger's (unrecognized) trilogy about tyranny—not in the abstract, but how to live in relation to, and what to do about, tyranny. Any relationship to current events in the West is pure coincidence, of course.
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Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Thursday Feb 24, 2022
Something new: Throw Back Thursday, in which I showcase older articles that newer readers may have missed. This is, for once, not political. Rather, it is an oral history of the ultra-talented Warren Zevon, warts and all.
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Friday Feb 11, 2022
Against Counsels of Defeat
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
My antidote to pessimism in the face of the Left. Not only can we win, we are going to win, and that right soon—if we have the will.
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